It’s more than just hush money, this money was spent on gold. According to a shocking article published by Der Spiegel, a respected German online magazine, Germany bought the 2006 World Cup with money provided by an adidas CEO. The report states that the head of Germany’s Bid Committee, Franz Beckenbauer, must have also known about the slush fund. But he’s not all–the current German FA chief Wolfgang Niersbach was also in on it (or so the report alleges).
The Swiss Franc slush fund was used to pay off four different Asian members of the Executive Committee, including South Korean Dr Chung Mong-Joon. Mong-Joon was banned from football just last week for six years by Fifas’s Ethics Committee.
The money used to pay off the members of the committee was “borrowed” from the deceased Robert Louis-Dreyfus, former adidas CEO. Five years later, the fund was paid back via a highly complex web of deposits from a Zurich account, in the attempt to cover up the borrowed amount between Fifa and Germany’s Organizing Committee.
Of course, however, the German association claimed that there were no irregularities or wrongdoings and that the investigation stemmed from the media’s speculation.
“The DFB has not found even the slightest indications of irregularities during our investigation,” it said in a statement. “At the same time, there have been no indications at all of votes being bought from delegates as part of the bidding process. The payment was in no way connected with obtaining the [World Cup] five years earlier.”
Backenbauer was previously suspended by Fifa for not cooperating in the investigation regarding the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. Regardless of what’s true and what’s not, one thing is for certain: time machines would really help fix past discrepancies, because what can really be done now? After all, Germany still took home the Cup.
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