By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Former Fifa officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been charged with fraud and other offences in Switzerland.
Swiss prosecutors say Blatter unlawfully arranged a transfer of two million Swiss francs ($2.19m; £1.6m) to Platini in 2011.
Prosecutors say the payment “damaged Fifa’s assets and unlawfully enriched Platini”.
Blatter and Platini now face trial at a court in Bellinzona
The case was opened in September 2015 and led to both men being banned from football.
The affair ended Blatter’s 17-year spell in charge of Fifa and then-Uefa president Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor.
Both Blatter, 85, and Platini, 66, have previously denied any wrongdoing.