Theo Zwanziger, former president of the German Football Federation, is also being investigated Wolfgang Niersbach was a member of the 2006 World Cup local rganising committee with the other five menGerman magazine Der Spiegel made the poe currency first claims about the 2006 World Cup bid, with their report alleging that former adidas chief executive Robert- Louis Dreyfus had lent the DBF £5m to set up a slush fund to buy votes.Freshfields found that money had been ‘falsely declared’ by the.
World Cup organising committee as a payment to FIFA for an opening gala that was cancelled.Beckenbauer, known as The Kaiser, won the World Cup as both player and manager and headed the winning bid committee. The 70-year-old said in a statement that the bid committee had ‘made a mistake’ over the Dreyfus money but ‘no votes were bought’.
However he is back under suspicion just a month after being warned and fined £5,000 for refusing to co-operate with the FIFA ethics investigation into the 2018-2022 World Cup bidding contests.He also resigned last week from a buy poe currency TV analyst job with Sky Germany, citing the need for a break after 50 years as a public figure. FIFA opens proceedings over 2006 German World Cup bid | Daily Mail Online.
FIFA opens proceedings over 2006 German World Cup bid ByReuters Published: 10:19 EST, 22 March 2016 | Updated: 10:19 EST, 22 March 2016 e-mail ZURICH, March 22 (Reuters) - FIFA's ethics watchdog has started formal proceedings against six individuals, including Franz Beckenbauer, over the awarding of hosting rights to Germany for the 2006 World Cup, world soccer's governing body said on Tuesday.