Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - According to a report by the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" for the German Football Association, forensic experts from a Berlin detective agency should still provide clarification in the "summer fairy tale affair".
"It is correct, and this is one of the main concerns of President Fritz Keller, that the DFB is currently carrying out a general inventory, which also includes processes relating to the 2006 World Cup," the DFB said at the request of the German Press Agency.
"After completing this still general inventory, the DFB will first inform the committees and subsequently the public in a suitable form about the result," it said. As part of the ongoing process, the DFB asks for understanding that it "currently does not comment on details."
The DFB did not want to answer an inquiry from the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" about details of the cooperation with the detective agency, who selected the company exactly when and how much it received "against the background of the current general inventory". The company Esecon told the newspaper on Monday that no questions were answered in principle. According to SZ information, the detective agency has been working for the association since last year.
At the end of April, the summer fairy tale proceedings against former DFB presidents Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger and the former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt had been terminated by the Swiss federal prosecutor's office because of the statute of limitations.
In essence, the process involved a transfer of the DFB in April 2005 in the amount of 6.7 million euros via the world association FIFA to the entrepreneur Robert Louis-Dreyfus, who had since died. The money was declared as a contribution to a gala for the 2006 World Cup, which never took place. In 2002, World Cup organization chief Franz Beckenbauer received a loan from Louis-Dreyfus in the same amount, which ultimately disappeared into the accounts of the then FIFA chief of finance, Mohamed bin Hammam. What for is still unclear.
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