Fifa opens proceedings against Beckenbauer – THE WORLD

The football world governing body Fifa is investigating former DFB sizes because of the events surrounding the World Cup 2006. It was a “formal procedure” been initiated against six people, said the federation. In order for the Fifa responds to commands given from the German Football Association in order “Freshfields Report”, who had examined possible manipulation at the World Cup award and ominous cash flows between the associations.

In the center of the affair are two payments of 6.7 million euros. With the help of Robert Louis-Dreyfus remitted Beckenbauer and his manager Robert Schwan this sum in 2002, initially through an account in Switzerland to a company of the former Fifa functionary Mohamed bin Hammam in Qatar. 2005 World Cup organizing paid the 6.7 million to the former Adidas boss Louis-Dreyfus returns – but deliberately false declarations, as a contribution to the World Cup Gala, which never took place at the end

As the Fifa announced on Tuesday that investigations against former DFB president Wolfgang Niersbach and the Ex-Secretary Helmut Sandrock be directed. In addition, the ethicists determine their boss Cornel Borbely against the then Chief of the World Cup organizing committee Franz Beckenbauer, former DFB president Theo Zwanziger, the former general secretary Horst R. Schmidt and the former Deputy Secretary General Stefan Hans.

at the outcome of the investigation will depend whether Niersbach further allowed to keep its offices in the Fifa and Uefa. The former DFB president, who resigned in the wake of the World scandal, had said in the “Welt am Sonntag”: “It has been agreed for a long time that the Freshfields report goes to the Ethics Committee of FIFA and is held there, if one laments on my wrongdoing or not. I do not think so, and have confidence in the processes in the ethics Committee. “

Beckenbauer had earlier Zoff with Fifa. The ethics committee thundered him in February to pay a fine of around 6350 euros. Beckenbauer did in 2022 is not cooperating enough in the investigation for the award of the World Cup to Russia and 2018 to Qatar. The award of the 2006 World Cup to Germany was not covered by the procedure.

For Beckenbauer, twenties, Schmidt and Hans would examine the Trial chamber if there might undue payments and contracts are, the benefits in the allocation and funding of the World Cup could pose. Among other things, will also examine whether it has been violated Article 21, of fraud and corruption controls. In Niersbach and Sandrock it related to violations of various ethical rules of Fifa.

“Of course I will cooperate in this process in every way and the investigation of ethics Commission, in whose work I have full confidence that support, “Niersbach said:” It is, as far as my person, only to a possible violation of the 2015 of the duty. ” Zwanziger however, wants to sit in the championship affair against the investigation of the ethics committee for defense. “I am very surprised and as the accusations very clearly,” he said yesterday.

Ethics guardians Borbely, says a Fifa Announcement , will pursue “all allegations” in suspicious activities and transmit in due course its findings to the adjudicatory chamber. Until the promulgation of a final judgment presumed innocent.

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