Franz Beckenbauer before the logo of World Cup 2006
In the World Cup scandal at the German Football Association (DFB) boils down to a confrontation between the former combatants in the World Championships organizing committee also – with a further distancing from the former OC President Franz Beckenbauer. This picture is also confirmed by statements in the interrogation records from the internal DFB investigation by the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
The “Bild” newspaper had quoted from it on Tuesday. Accordingly, the retired DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach had recalled that Beckenbauer told him in 2002 after the re-election of Joseph Blatter as president of the International Football Association (FIFA), “which has been chosen with my money.”
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Similarly, the former deputy secretary general Stefan Hans DFB had expressed. Beckenbauer had shown to the question, whom Blatter owe his election to itself. The former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt is said to have reported in his interrogation of a four-on-one meeting with Blatter Beckenbauer in December 2001, in which he had not specifically asked later about the details of the conversation. Sometimes it is better in this environment, so Schmidt allegedly to know nothing in the Freshfield-examination of things.
In the investigation it comes to the 6.7 million euros that flowed back then by the DFB to FIFA. Their purpose and whereabouts are still unknown. Beckenbauer, the then president of the World Cup organizing committee, claiming that you had to pay the FIFA Finance Committee this sum to get the World Cup for Germany grant of 170 million euros. The suspicions are confirmed now by the interrogations that the sum has been used to support financially Blatter for his re-election as FIFA President of 2002. This denies this. FIFA had already said that the 6.7 million Euro were not then landed on their accounts. Or try Niersbach and Co. with their statements only divert the suspicions that bribes have flowed for championship award at Germany in 2000?
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The latest indiscretions around the Freshfield investigation regretted the DFB Presidential Candidate Reinhard Grindel. “The DFB has noted with great surprise to note that confidential interrogation transcripts appear in the media,” it said in the DFB. The report of the Commissioners Frankfurt law firm is to be completed at the earliest in February. From whatever side now came the information is not known. “For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Executive Committee nor the entire DFB Bureau had at any time access to the minutes of the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,” said the association
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It is clear that Niersbach, Schmidt and Hans present with their statements frontally against Beckenbauer. Probably to protect yourself now. Against Schmidt, Niersbach, but also the former DFB president Theo Zwanziger, determines the prosecutor in the case on suspicion of tax evasion. Niersbach had signed the appropriate tax return in October 2007, in which the ominous 6.7 million euros were declared as commission and deductible items. The former members of the OC could threaten pay substantial damages.
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