Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and previous Uefa president Michel Platini will cross on trial in Switzerland in June to stand corruption fees.
Swiss prosecutors say Blatter unlawfully organized a switch of 2m Swiss francs (£1.6m) to Platini in 2011.
Blatter and Platini – who had been indicted in November – have each prior to now denied any wrongdoing.
If discovered to blame, they might obtain jail sentences or fines.
The case was once opened in September 2015 after Fifa, soccer’s international governing frame, was once dogged via accusations of fashionable corruption.
Fifa’s ethics committee introduced an investigation which noticed each males banned from the sport and compelled to go away their positions.
The Swiss case centres on a request for cost for advisory paintings Platini did for the then-Fifa president Blatter, 86, between 1998 and 2002.
Prosecutors stated Platini, 66, demanded the cost “over 8 years after the termination of his advisory task”.
“With Blatter’s involvement, Fifa made a cost to Platini in stated quantity initially of 2011,” prosecutors prior to now stated.
Blatter and Platini are charged with fraud, embezzlement, “untrue trade control” and forgery of paperwork.
The trial will get started on 8 June.
