Everything just bought? The 2006 World Cup in Germany.
According to the allegations of the news magazine “Der Spiegel” for the award of the 2006 World Cup the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office reviewed an initial suspicion of a criminal investigation. Possible offenses named spokeswoman Nadja Niesen on Monday in Frankfurt fraud, embezzlement or corruption. She spoke of a “monitoring process”. When the audit was completed, she could not say. The “mirror” had reported on the suspicion that the DFB have possibly bought with money from a slush fund four voices of Asian members of the FIFA Executive Committee. The DFB denies this vehemently.
In a vortex around 2005 by the DFB at the Fifa carried out payment of 6.7 million euros provides the then Interior Minister Otto Schily football’s world governing body in Erklärungsnot. That is a question that really concerns the Fifa, Schily said on Monday in the “Morning Magazine” the ARD. Of course there is also the DFB reason to check. “But normally when I pay to a club a bit, then I assume that that is also used as intended”, the SPD politician said.
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The German Football Association had inconsistencies to the payment granted and referred to internal and external investigations. Schily does not see the association, however, in the Bring guilt. In DFB there was a treasurer in Theo Zwanziger 2005 “has all payments audited highly meticulously – and that had to be so, because the DFB is a nonprofit organization.”
For the award of the 2006 World Cup should have flowed from a slush fund of the Bid Committee after an unconfirmed report of the “mirror” of money. Also Schily had the bid committee belongs. The 6.7-million-euro payment has been loud but DFB no relation to the World Cup award, the suspicion of vote buying, the Association vehemently.
© dpa Also Otto Schily (middle) was member of the bid committee for the 2006 World Cup.
Even Otto Schily (center) belonged to the bid committee for the 2006 World Cup on.
With an energetic denial before the makers of the “summer fairy tale” with Franz Beckenbauer had begun at the top of the impending scandal surrounding the World Cup award 2006, the bull by the horns. “I have let anyone get money to acquire votes for the award of the 2006 FIFA World Cup to Germany. And I’m sure this has done no other member of the Bid Committee, “said the” Kaiser “on Sunday.
Before the then chief of the World Cup organizing committee had already DFB boss Wolfgang Niersbach, former Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily and Beckenbauer Intimus and OC vice-president Fedor Radman the accusations of the magazine “Der Spiegel”, the DFB did with money from a black Checkout possibly bought four voices of Asian members of the FIFA Executive Committee, refused vehemently.
Niersbach: “The World Cup was not bought”
“I can rule out absolutely and categorically. I can assure you that there has been no slush funds at the DFB, the Bid Committee nor the later organizing committee in connection with the promotion and award the 2006 World Cup definitely, “Niersbach said already on Saturday in an interview at the federation site on the accusations.
There have also been no vote buying, assured Niersbach – then one of the deputies of OC President Beckenbauer. “Definitely not. Again, I can assure all football fans, “the president of the German Football Association, adding said”: the World Cup was not bought “
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Also Radmann dismissed the allegation of vote buying back forcefully. “The Bid Committee has never bribed anyone. I am ready to swear to it even. We did not buy votes, “Radmann said Saturday the television channel Sky Sport News HD. Schily reiterated in the “Bild am Sonntag” that he had “at no time received information that ‘reasonable suspicion, slush funds” as a member of the organizing committee.
Still, questions remain. Especially the determination after the absurdities around a 2005 to the world football association payment of 6.7 million euros. Niersbach assured, this would already externally investigated internally by the Control Committee and of the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer-.
“I can not remember it absolutely”
In order, however, he broke for information of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung astonishment in the DFB Presidium of which was apparently not informed about it until last Friday. Although the outcome of the audits is still pending, he could “definitely rule due to the schedules of this payment process now that payment in connection with the World Cup award in 2000 is” assured Niersbach.
Not so good is his memory with respect to a the “mirror” This document from 2004, which are in connection with the operation and shall bear a handwritten note Niersbachs. “I can not remember it completely, especially since I was involved in my capacity as Vice-President Marketing and OK Media only very limited in economic transactions,” said DFB chief.
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