Zurich: Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter appeared before the world body's ethics judges yesterday to answer corruption allegations as Switzerland announced it has frozen tens of millions of dollars in accounts linked to football bribes.


Suspended FIFA chief Sepp Blatter arrives at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich for a FIFA court hearing yesterday

Blatter, who with vice president Michel Platini faces a long suspension, arrived at FIFA's base in Zurich in a black Mercedes with his lawyer. He made no comment as he entered. Before the hearing, Blatter, 79, wrote a letter to FIFA's 209 members calling the FIFA ethics commission's investigators "the inquisition". As the hearing went ahead, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, whose country will host the 2018 World Cup, said Blatter should be a Nobel Peace laureate.