On Wednesday, those responsible for the German Football Association (DFB) look forward to the decision of the Frankfurt/Main Regional Court on the summer fairy tale scandal.
At 10:00 a.m., judge Eva-Marie Distler will announce the judgment of the chamber in the process of dubious payment flows around the 2006 World Cup in the process of dubious payment flows since March 2024. The procedure comes to an end after 33 days of negotiations.
The public prosecutor accuses the DFB of having evaded around 2.7 million euros in taxes and sees a “particularly difficult” case. The association should therefore pay a penalty of 270,000 euros. The defense rejected the accusation of intentional tax evasion and applied for an acquittal. The total procedure has been lasting almost ten years.
Procedure against DFB top officials were discontinued
Of the three suspects, nobody sits on the dock. The procedures against the three former DFB top officials Theo Zwanziger, 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 months, the court has been determined for months, for which the ominous 6.7 million euros, which had been used by the DFB as an issue for an initial World Cup gala, were used: According to this, it was one of WM boss Franz Beckenbauer in the DFB service to make a bribe 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.
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.
As a result of the scandal, the DFB was retrospectively dismissed, the association had to pay 22 million euros in taxes. The DFB wants to fight for the reimbursement of its tax payment before the Kassel finance court. A conviction would be a setback. For security, the DFB also sued its ex-President Zwanziger in order to request possible compensation.