2006 World Cup: Swiss Justice opens criminal proceedings against Franz Beckenbauer

"The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has opened criminal proceedings in connection with the German Football Federation (Deutscher Fussball-Bund (DFB). The suspects were members of the executive board of the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup in Germany," stated the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland on 01/09/2016.

"The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland opened criminal proceedings on 06/11/2015. The proceedings relate in particular to allegations of fraud (Art. 146 Swiss Criminal Code (SCC)), criminal mismanagement (Art.158 SCC), money laundering (Art. 305bis SCC) and misappropriation (Art. 138 SCC). The suspects in the criminal proceedings are:
• Horst Rudolf Schmidt (former general secretary of the German Federation)
• Theo Zwanziger (former president of the German Federation)
• Franz Beckenbauer (former chairman of the organisation committee of the 2006 World Cup)
• Wolfgang Niersbach (former president of the German Federation)."

"The four persons named were members of the executive board of the organising committee for the 2006 World…