The German Football Association (DFB) is said to pay a penalty of 270,000 euros for the summer fairy tale scandal. The public prosecutor made this demand on Monday in its plea in the process of dubious payment flows around the 2006 World Cup before the Frankfurt/Main district court. The judgment after 33 days of negotiations will be made on Wednesday.
The public prosecutor accuses the DFB of having evaded around 2.7 million euros in taxes and sees a “particularly difficult” case.
“We are not dealing with an allotment garden association here, but with the largest sports opening campaign in the world,” said senior prosecutor Jesco Kümmel when looking back at the overall ten-year-long process: “The DFB has not spotted itself with fame and acted more than unhappily.”
WM 2006: Court assumes bribes
The DFB defenders vehemently rejected the allegation of tax evasion. In her statements, judge Eva-Marie Distler had recently left little doubt that the DFB was faced with punishment.
Of the three suspects, nobody sits on the dock in the final phase of the process. The procedures against the three former DFB top officials Theo Zwanziger, Wolfgang Niersbach and Horst R. Schmidt were hired against the payment of fines.
For the court, it has long been clear for the ominous 6.7 million euros, which had been used by the DFB as an issue for an initial World Cup gala: According to this, it was one of WM boss Franz Beckenbauer in the DFB service to make a lammer payment to corrupt members of the FIFA Finance Commission around Mohamed.
The then DFB top officials wanted to secure the World Cup subsidy of the World Association of 170 million euros granted at the end.