ZURICH (AFP) - Former world football chief Sepp Blatter on Monday (Aug 9) met a Swiss prosecutor investigating suspected fraud surrounding a Fifa payment to Michel Platini, as the long-running probe inches towards a conclusion.

The 85-year-old former Fifa president is being investigated over a two million Swiss franc (S$3.25 million) payment in 2011 to Platini, who was then in charge of European football's governing body Uefa.

In a statement ahead of the hearing, Blatter said he was going into the session with optimism.