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FIFA procedure against the makers of the 2006 world Cup
Franz Beckenbauer, Wolfgang Niersbach and Helmut Sandrock, Theo Zwanziger and Horst R. Schmidt, – the world Federation is investigating the makers of the “summer fairy tale”. It comes to inconsistencies in the awarding of the 2006 world Cup.
The top of the organisation Committee of the 2006 world Cup: Schmidt, twenties, Beckenbauer, Niersbach
The ethics Committee of the world football Association FIFA has launched because of the scandal surrounding the world Cup award in 2006, a formal procedure. As the FIFA announced on Tuesday on its Homepage, the investigations against the outgoing DFB President Wolfgang Niersbach and Ex-Secretary-General
Helmut Sandrock. Niersbach was Vice-President of the organizing Committee of the world Cup, Sandrock tournament Director in 2006.
“Of course I’ll cooperate in this, in every respect, and the investigations of the ethics Commission, in whose work I trust,” said
Niersbach sports information service SID: “It’s in regards to my Person, only a potential violation to the year 2015 against the notification.”
In addition, the FIFA ethics find their chief Cornel Borbély to OK-in-chief
Franz Beckenbauer, Ex-DFB President, and the OK-Vice-President Theo Zwanziger, the former Secretary-General, and the OK-Vice-President Horst R. Schmidt and the former Deputy General Secretary Stefan Hans, who was then the chief financial officer of the organizing Committee.
Borbely said in a statement, FIFA will investigate “all reports of” suspicious activities, and from time to time its findings to the judicial forward chamber. Up to the promulgation of a final judgment, the presumption of innocence applies.
Freshfields Report provides information
After a thorough evaluation of the
Freshfields Reports that on 4. March has been published, the investigators Niersbach and Sandrock, FIFA possible violations of the code of Ethics of the Association is not reported. The Freshfields Report is the result of extensive investigations and interviews by the DFB itself with dealing with the affair commissioned eponymous law firm.
The other accused are placed “improper payments” to the load, which in the applicants process, potential benefits could be. FIFA also said some other violations may be added, as new information should come to light.
In their more than 300-page Report, the Freshfields investigators had published that there was now no evidence of a vote-buying prior to the award of the world Cup in the year 2000. One could not refute this suspicion against the German world Cup candidate but also.
The whole affair, and also the Freshfields Report are rivers, interspersed with questionable incidents and Money. In the centre two payments over EUR 6.7 million. With the help of the former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus, the OK boss, Beckenbauer and his Manager Robert Schwan transferred this sum in 2002, initially in an account in Switzerland to a company of the former FIFA official Mohamed bin Hammam in Qatar. In 2005, the OC paid back the 6.7 million veiled to Louis-Dreyfus. It is questionable what purpose this had 6.7 million.
to/asz (sid, dpa)