Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Swiss press case against Beckenbauer, three others...

Swiss federal prosecutors opened a formal criminal case against German football legend Franz Beckenbauer and three others on Thursday, part of a widening probe into suspected fraud involving Germany’s 2006 World Cup.

Police searches were simultaneously carried out in eight locations, including Beckenbauer’s home in Austria, on behalf of Swiss prosecutors who are investigating corruption linked to Zurich-based FIFA, world football’s governing body.

Switzerland's attorney general's office said it opened criminal proceedings against Beckenbauer and three other German members of the 2006 World Cup organising committee’s executive board: Horst Rudolf Schmidt, Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach.

In a statement on Thursday, the office of Swiss Attorney General Michael Lauber confirmed that on November 6, 2015 it opened criminal proceedings in connection with the German Football Association, or Deutscher Fussball-Bund (DFB).

Authorities on Thursday also searched the home former German football official Fedor Radmann’s home in the Swiss village of Appenzell, Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported. Full story...

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