Niersbach threatens but the loss of all offices – Berliner Morgenpost

03.23.2016, 05:50

Fifa opens proceedings against früherenDFB-Präsidentenund Beckenbauer

Zurich. Wolfgang Niersbach threatens the final out, Franz Beckenbauer and Co. must tremble again: The football world governing body Fifa will roll up the scandal surrounding the awarding of the 2006 World Cup again. During Beckenbauer and colleagues have “only” fear a further image damage, Niersbach threatened in the event of a lock of the loss of his lucrative job in world football. Niersbach sitting still in the newly created Council of Fifa and the Executive Committee of the European Football Union (UEFA). The 65-year-old conceded last year alone for his Fifa Job 270,000 euros.

“Of course I will cooperate in this process in every way and the investigation by the Ethics Committee, in their work I have full confidence that support, “Niersbach said. He resigned in November 2015 because of the scandal as president of the German Football Association (DFB). “It is, as far as my person, only to a possible violation from the 2015 to the reporting requirement,” Niersbach said.

Therefore, the Ethics Commission initiated a formal procedure. According to ethicists, the investigations against former DFB president Niersbach and the Ex-Secretary Helmut Sandrock judge. In addition, against OC President Franz Beckenbauer, former DFB president Theo Zwanziger, the former general secretary Horst R. Schmidt and the former Deputy Secretary General Stefan Hans – except Niersbach but no one wearing an item

the introduced method is the result of a” thorough review “of the report Freshfields, which was published on 4 March. There was incidentally also noted that important file folders were gone for the 2006 World Cup from Niersbachs office. The Fifa investigators at the Swiss Cornel Borbély throw Niersbach and Sandrock before now to have the Fifa unreported potential violations of the Ethics Code in summer, 2015.

According to the Code of Ethics of FIFA, this could be enough for a lock – even if Niersbach is nothing else to prove on. Then Niersbach would remain only the passage through the courts – as it has been trodden without success, the former FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and the locked Uefa president Michel Platini. The other defendants ‘improper payments’ burden be placed, through which it could have come in candidate process to potential benefits.

In the center of the World 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 a Swiss bank account to a company of the then Fifa functionary Mohamed bin Hammam in Qatar. 2005 World Cup organizing paid the 6.7 million to the former Adidas boss Louis-Dreyfus returns – deliberately false declarations, as a contribution to the World Cup Gala, which never took place

Ex. -DFB president Zwanziger wants to free himself from the investigation to defend. “I am very surprised and as the accusations very clearly. In the Freshfields report, there is no single body that carries such a process against me.”

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