"Just before Christmas, he had to go to the hospital for heart surgery," Corinne Blatter said in an interview with CH Media, adding the operation had been expected to be routine.
The 84-year-old had tested positive for the coronavirus in November, his daughter said, but had recovered without having shown many apparent symptoms. The proceedings, which are continuing, were widened in November to include suspicions of fraud alongside those of mismanagement and misappropriation. Corinne Blatter, speaking ahead of a hearing her father was set to attend within a wider-ranging complex of civil and criminal matters, said her father was not aware of the new complaint lodged by FIFA, and that the scrutiny over the last five years had taken a toll on him.
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