Franz Beckenbauer moves again into the center of a scandal story. This time it's not about the German summer fairy tale, the football World Cup 2006 and a still unexplained million payment to Qatar, but about the awarding of the 2018 World Cup to Russia in 2010.
Hints that Beckenbauer, who was sitting on the Fifa Executive Committee at that time and could have codified, had sold his voice to Russia, there was already in the book "The Ugly Game" British journalists. Beckenbauer denied this.
But now on the Russian website "The Insider" for the first time e-mails from Russian source from the application phase appeared, which underpin the suspicion. They contain a fact book compiled by the Russian application team on all members of the Executive Committee.
It is said to Beckenbauer, his advisor and Intimus Fedor Radmann offer the voice of Beckenbauer for sale. In further emails is executed, for three million euros in advance and another 1.5 million in a surcharge for Russia belong the voice Beckenbauer the Russian team for the 2018 World Cup. In fact, Russia secured the contract and sat down in the end against Spain and Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands. The 74-year-old Beckenbauer has not responded to a current request from SPIEGEL.
"We want a meeting in Moscow"
The now emerging emails come from an apparently hacked mail account of Sergei Kapkov, the head of the Moscow cultural authority. They were transmitted from a revelation platform called Black Mirror to the reputable site "The Insider". This wants to check the authenticity of the mails and come to the conclusion that they are real. In the fact book that Alexander Dzhordzhadze, functionary of the Russian World Cup application committee, created in 2010 for the then Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov.
According to Beckenbauer, "In the past he supported the candidacy of England, but after our contacts with the advisors of the Australian application we received information about the readiness of FB to support the application of Russia The highest leader of the application, Beckenbauer consultant Fedor Radmann, offers his vote for generous consideration for his consultancy services. "
In 2012, Beckenbauer was awarded a sports ambassador contract between Beckenbauer's marketing company and the Association of Russian Gas Producers. Radmann's lawyer Norbert Scharf dismissed the claim that he had offered the voice of Beckenbauer as false on request.
