The German tax authorities raided Tuesday morning at the headquarters of the national football DFB in Frankfurt. The homes of federation president Wolfgang Niersbach and his predecessor, Theo Zwanziger be searched. The DFB is suspected of tax evasion, according to Justice, which ordered the raids. The German newspaper Bild , which first reported the news, published on the website photos of researchers who arrive at the DFB office
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The reason for the raids is the controversial payment of 6.7 million euros to FIFA, which would have done the Germans to win the 2006 world tournament. Last month, the story came out that Germany the World Cup would have been obtained through bribery. The DFB admits that 6.7 million was paid to FIFA as a condition to obtain a possible allocation 250 million for the organization. According to Bild, the tax payment which can not be found in the given declaration.
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According Niersbach is bribery, as suggested, no question. “The allocation of the World Championships in 2006, everything went according to the rules. There is no black money paid, no votes were bought,” said the union president who in 2012 Zwanziger succeeded as head of the DFB.
Niersbach explained that the amount has not been transferred by the DFB itself, but that the now deceased former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus made the payment to FIFA
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