The German Football Association is in court against its former President Theo Zwanziger. The association has submitted a claim for damages to the Frankfurt Regional Court about an amount in dispute of 24 million euros. This was confirmed by twenties of the German press agency. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” first reported on it.
At its core, it is about financial damage caused by the DFB by the summer fairy tale affair around the 2006 World Cup or could still be created. A tax criminal proceedings against three former DFB officials, including twenties, have also been running at the Frankfurt district court for almost eleven months.
In the process, it is to clarify whether the DFB has declared a payment of 6.7 million euros to the FIFA World Association from 2005 as an operating expenditure and thereby evaded taxes of more than 13 million euros. Zwanziger and the former DFB boss Wolfgang Niersbach, who is invited as a witness on Thursday, and the former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt have always strictly rejected the accusation raised by the Frankfurt public prosecutor.
DFB worked eight years ago
As early as 2017, the DFB, to which the charitable status for 2006 had been revoked in the course of the affair, had given claims for damages among the three former top officials. As a result, these had made waiver every year – but no longer for 2025. Since the tax criminal proceedings against Niersbach were terminated against the payment of a money requirement of 25,000 euros and separated against Schmidt for health reasons, only twenties are on the dock.
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The 79-year-old reacted calmly to the submission by the DFB, which curiously represented the same point of view as the twenties in the summer fairy tale process-namely that there was no tax evasion. In plain language means: The association only secures itself for all eventualities. The DFB did not comment on the current procedure with reference to the ongoing procedure.
“We have been talking to the DFB for years in order to achieve a uniform assessment of the liability question, not least on the basis of the reports commissioned by the DFB itself, which have been very critical of the liability question,” said Zwanziger’s lawyer Hans- Jörg Metz of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. Unfortunately, the DFB did not have the courage for its own evaluation, “so that the court (.) Now has to decide with the evaluation of all aspects in due course.”