The German Football Federation (DFB) It was convicted on Wednesday by the Frankfurt province to pay a fine of 100,000 euros for tax prevention, a case related to the 2006 World Championship organization.
The DFB was accused of avoiding taxes worth 2.7 million euros and requesting a fine of 270,000 euros while the defense rejected the charges.
In the sentence, a process ended in 2024 around the payment of 6.7 million euro to FIFA In April 2005.
That sum is deposited in an account of the former president of Adidas Consortium Robert Louis-Dreyfus and matches 10 million Swiss francs the President of the World Cup Organizing Committee, Franz Becenbauer, He received as a leader’s loan to pay FIFA.
The court considers the money used to bribe corrupt FIFA members led by Mohamed Bin Haman. With this, the DFB wants to ensure a help with FIFA worth 170 million euros.
The DFB announced the return of the loan as a contribution to an inauguration ceremony that was not finally conducted.
Processes against after DFB executives were filed in exchange for paying fines. The former president Wolfgang nersbach He paid 25,000 euros, also former president Theo Zwanziger 10,000 and former Schmidt 65,000 Wolfgang Schmidt.
The process led to the DFB to lose the status of the interest organization with a retroactive effect and had to pay taxes worth 22 million euros.
Source: La Verdad
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