Police searched the headquarters of the German Football Federation. The investigation into the scandal, World Cup – Polish Radio

DFB rooms and apartments suspects have been carried out searches – German media reported. The searches involved 50 officers Frankfurt tax office and the prosecutor’s office.

 
 
 

The reason for the implementation of the investigation is to pass by the organizing committee of the football World Cup in Germany in 2006 the amount of 6.7 million euros of the International Football Federation (FIFA).

 

October 16 magazine “Der Spiegel” revealed that Germany’s candidacy for World Cup organizers had “supported” the sum of 6.7 million euro allocated to bribe FIFA activists. The German Football Federation (DFB) has rejected those accusations, but acknowledged that the amount handed over by FIFA.

 

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Germany bought the organization of the World Cup in 2006? Strong accusations “Der Spiegel”

 

– To receive a subsidy FIFA agreed with the proposal of the Financial Committee of FIFA, which both parties should be rejected. As then-chairman of the organizing committee will bear full responsibility for this mistake – explained Franz Beckenbauer, then chairman of the organizing committee.

 

He stressed, however, that “it was not bought votes” in the selection process host the 2006 World Cup.

 

DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach asserted that there was not a secret fund, or bribe the occasion to choose the organizer of the World Cup in 2006.

 

By Niersbach, Beckenbauer and Sepp Blatter had a meeting “face to face” in January 2002, during which the FIFA President spoke of a subsidy amounting to EUR 170 million to help the Germans in the tournament. To unlock the subsidy, the Financial Committee of FIFA, however, demanded 10 million Swiss francs (6.7 million euros) and this sum had to pass the late head of the Adidas Group, Robert Louis-Dreyfus.

 

FIFA rejected these accusations.

 
 

Source: DE RTL TV / x-news

 

– When we decided to run for the organizer of the World Cup in 2006 we had sincere intentions. I repeat once again that there was no secret bank accounts or used to buy votes – said the head of the DFB, Wolfgang Niersbach.

 

During the press conference, journalists began to spin suspicion that the alleged corruption in the selection of championship organizer knows most Franz Beckenbauer.

 

– Maybe, I do not know anything. I will not speak for him – he said Niersbach.

 

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