The claim lightly, the impact of millions: the DFB should pay a penalty of 270,000 euros for the summer fairy tale scandal.
This far -reaching conviction for a fine, the public prosecutor demanded on Monday in its plea in the process of dubious payment flows around the World Cup in the 2006 World Cup.
The public prosecutor accuses the DFB of having evaded around 2.7 million euros in taxes and sees one “Particularly difficult” Case. “We are not dealing with an allotment garden association here, but with the largest sports opening camp in the world”Senior Prosecutor Jesco Kümmel said when looking back at the overall procedure that lasted almost ten years: “The DFB has not spotted itself with fame and acted more than unhappily.”
DFB demands acquittal and hopes for money
The DFB defenders vehemently rejected the accusation of intentional tax evasion in their plea and demanded an acquittal. “There has been no fiscal damage. It depends on the fact that it was a business output that is tax -deductible”said DFB lawyer Jan Olaf Leisner: “The DFB suffered massive and for years from this procedure.”
The reasoning of the DFB defense has a good reason: As a result of the scandal, the association had been retrospectively dismissed, the DFB had to pay 22 million euros in taxes. The association wants to fight for the reimbursement of his tax payment before the Kassel finance court. A conviction would be a setback. For security, the DFB also sued its ex-president Theo Zwanziger in order to request possible compensation.
Lubrication money in the millions
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 proceedings against the three former DFB top officials twenties, Wolfgang Niersbach and Horst R. Schmidt were hired against the payment of fines. Twenties had to pay 10,000 euros, Niersbach 25,000 euros, Schmidt 65,000 euros.
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.
“Many protagonists and witnesses have Gaps in memory related “
The 6.7 million were transferred in 2005 by the German Organization Committee (OK) via FIFA to the former Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus. Exactly this sum was obvious three years earlier in the form of preliminary work from Louis-Dreyfus to bin Hammam to Qatar. The DFB posted this as an operating edition in 2006.
Kümmel paid tribute to the investigators’ work on Monday. “We fought to ensure that the clarification is carried out. The tax investigation and the public prosecutor had to overcome numerous resistors”said the chief rank: “We were blamed that we had broken the summer fairy tale. Many protagonists and witnesses referred to gaps in memory.”