The former DFB president Theo Zwanziger has submitted documents.
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Frankfurt / Main – In the WM affair the more new questions. “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, according to a report in the meantime there are even doubts about the repayment of the ominous Dreyfus million. Theo Zwanziger says Meanwhile, out in front of the external investigators the association.
key figure Theo Zwanziger has responded to the external DFB investigators in the World Cup affair and a private feud with his successor denied. “It is not about one thing: Twenties against Niersbach or the DFB,” the former president of the German Football Association of German Press Agency said, referring to incumbent Wolfgang Niersbach. “But it is about the truth and the investigation of an extremely important matter.”
Two days after Franz Beckenbauer is Zwanziger met on Wednesday evening with the staff of the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. “There I submitted all my documents, presenting my comments and my assessments,” said the 70-year-old. Zwanziger had the news magazine “Der Spiegel” of “a slush fund” in the German bid for the 2006 World Cup reports.
He also alleged that the former National Player Günter Netzer had admitted him against the bribery of four FIFA officials prior to the award of the 2006 World Cup in Germany. And so, two weeks after the revelations of dubious cash flows in this scandal further statements against statements. Because on Thursday announced Also once again the close Beckenbauer confidante Fedor Radmann to speak.
“I could during my six children lives conjure that I firmly thereof am convinced that not a human being was bribed by us. I also go so far: No one has somehow enriched, “said the member of the World Cup organizing committee of the weekly newspaper” Die Zeit “. “What happened in recent days, is not only annoying, but a disgrace.” The German football would “lose their image to an extent that you can not imagine.”
The WM affair will also deal with the sports committee of the Bundestag on Wednesday. Then there Interior Secretary Ole Schröder to explain, since the Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the sport not only, but was also involved in the World Cup preparations. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” likened the scandal on Thursday with a puzzle with 1000 parts. “Many parts are wild on the table, but how they fit together?”
The “SZ” goes in its report nor a new track after. Accordingly, it goes into this scandal may not vote-buying before the World Cup award, but a slush fund at the World governing body FIFA itself. Citing several sources at the German Football Association, the newspaper writes that the ominous 6.7 million euros of former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus may never flowed back to the French in 2005, but to another account in Switzerland.
The aim of this transaction there have been, “to fill a slush fund within the control of FIFA. A slush fund for a single FIFA functionary or FIFA community of interests, “it says in the report.
The World Association even commented on Thursday on request only that he is for the time being leave “no further comment”. Also Zwanziger would not comment on the SZ-search. As vice president of the organizing committee he had approved the repayment of dubious Dreyfus loan itself – even though he knew that the intended use specified “WM-cultural program” is not right
. In contradiction to this search is also a report of the “Bild” newspaper (Thursday), which refers to the American law firm Quinn Emanuel, which checks the accounts of FIFA on behalf of the football world governing body. Then documents are in Switzerland has found that the repayment of the Dreyfus million went just as far always shown by the DFB: Disguised as a contribution to a World Cup Gala had the German organizing committee referred to FIFA the 6.7 million in 2005, . which had forwarded the same day to a Dreyfus account the money
When asked about the different reports on this payment, Zwanziger said: “The last thing I made have, the signature under the letter to FIFA on 19 April 2005. “That was the invitation to the world governing body, the forward 6.7 million euros directly to Louis-Dreyfus. The former DFB president thinks by its own account still that the money had flowed back as agreed at the French. But that it was actually landed on another FIFA account, as described by the “SZ”, he did not rule.
The loan of Louis-Dreyfus is the crucial point of the whole affair allegedly. After presentation of the DFB, the then OC President Franz Beckenbauer and FIFA President Joseph Blatter have threaded this payment in 2002 in a two-person conversation. What happened to this money, is still unclear.
According to “mirror” -Recherchen FIFA officials were thus possibly bribed, Beckenbauer and DFB speak of a commission payment to secure a huge organizational grant for the World Cup. Now there are the doubts about the repayment of the money in 2005 added.
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