Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - Former DFB President Theo Zwanziger demands intensive and targeted clarification of the summer fairy tale affair from the German Football Association.
"I don't understand that the commitment I made in a DFB agreement of March 1, 2019 to get Mohammad bin Hammam to talk about FIFA does not appear to be being pursued," said Zwanziger in a conversation with the German press agency.
According to information from the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", the DFB had already commissioned a Berlin detective agency last year to shed light on the dubious payment of 6.7 million euros from 2005. However, Zwanziger grants these efforts little chance of success.
"I have nothing against enlightenment, I asked for it in 2012 and would not mind if the DFB would still use fortune tellers and clairvoyants," said the 74-year-old. "After all, you have already spent almost ten million euros, so a few more or less are not important."
The money transferred from the DFB to FIFA in April 2005 as a contribution to a later gala event had disappeared from Bin Hammam's accounts. In his view, the key to clarification was in Qatar, where the former FIFA Vice-President, who has not been heard so far, remains, and with FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
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