“A former manager of the DFB is said to have concluded a service contract with a communications agency on behalf of the DFB. On the basis of this contract, the DFB is said to have paid a total of 360,000 euros to the communications agency,” said the public prosecutor. “The contract is said to have been a mere sham contract.” The DFB let me know as soon as possiblethat he at the “suspicion of infidelity” not accused.
who the accused are “former responsible” and “Third”the prosecutor left open.
“Extremely sensitive overall situation”
The media agency concerned also remained nameless. But the assumption that it is Kurt Diekmann’s communications agency is obvious. Many media reports, in which the sum of 360,000 euros is also explicitly mentioned, indicate this.
Evidence can also be found in the annual reports of the DFB, especially in the report of the chairman of the audit committee. On page 45 it says: “In view of the extremely sensitive legal and freedom of expression overall situation of the ‘Diekmann complex’, the audit committee refrains from going into specific details in its statement of accounts.”
Greeting contradicted
The sentences that follow thwart the greeting, after which the bad image of the DFB does not do justice to the real situation. “One thing, however, must be allowed to be said: if a DFB committee is commissioned by the DFB executive committee to examine a specific matter and members of the executive committee then threaten personal and legal consequences, he himself must contact a law firm for the necessary legal representation of his interests has to commission and the DFB refuses to bear the costs for months, then this is an unprecedented process even for people who have been in the management of associations and clubs for decades.”
If an annual report were a comic, the sentences would be with “bang”, “Bam”, “bang” and “bang” Mistake.
Significant doubts
The cooperation between the Diekmann agency is certified by the DFB, also in this one Statement from May 2021. What exactly the cooperation looked like, for which Diekmann, who never appeared in public, was paid so lavishly, is nebulous. The DFB claims that it was about the crisis communication in the course of the separation from the long-standing rights marketer Infront. There are doubts about this representation, on Wednesday (03/03/2022) they were in great detail and provided with news in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Fritz Keller also had questions about the contract with Diekmann. The former president of the DFB wanted to take a close look at the paper, but according to his account he was not given it, even though he was the head of the association.