Current realities of the prosecution can't thusly be considered to have been made with a likelihood verging on sureness.
Timetable - a seven-year examination
May 2015: Seven Fifa authorities captured on charges of racketeering, wire extortion and illegal tax avoidance. A different criminal examination by Swiss specialists into how the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were distributed was likewise under way.
29 May, 2015: Blatter is chosen for a fifth term as Fifa president in a vote eclipsed by captures and debasement charges.
2 June, 2015: Blatter declares he will leave, however will stay in control until an exceptional congress can pick another pioneer.
July 2015: Platini, the leader of Uefa, reports his expectation to run as Fifa president.
24 September, 2015: Switzerland's Attorney General opens criminal procedures for "unjustifiable administration" and "break of trust" against Blatter. He is associated with making "an out of line installment" in 2011 of 2,000,000 Swiss Francs to Platini.
8 October, 2015: Fifa suspends Blatter and Platini for 90 days.
21 December, 2015: Fifa's Ethics Committee suspends Blatter and Platini for a long time from all football-related action.
8 January, 2016: Platini pulls out his bid for the Fifa administration.
24 February, 2016: The two suspensions are diminished to six years on request.
26 February, 2016: Gianni Infantino, Uefa's overall secretary, is chosen Fifa president.
9 May, 2016: Platini's restriction is sliced from six to four years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).
5 December, 2016: Blatter's six-year suspension is affirmed by Cas.
18 June, 2019: Platini is captured in Paris regarding a test into the granting of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. Platini denied any bad behavior and was delivered subsequent to addressing.
11 December, 2019: Fifa declares that it is making a legitimate move to get the repayment of the 2,000,000 Swiss Francs paid "unduly" to Platini.
5 March, 2020: Platini loses an enticement for the European Court of Human Rights against his four-year boycott.
1 September, 2020: Blatter is addressed by the Swiss head legal officer's office over the installment to Platini.
2 November, 2020: Criminal procedures in Switzerland open against Platini and Blatter for "misrepresentation".
22 June, 2022: Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in the southern city of Bellinzona clears Blatter and Platini following a preliminary.