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Beckenbauer says unaware of money to Qatari firm
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 05 - 03 - 2016

Former organising chief Franz Beckenbauer denied any wrongdoing on Saturday in an affair involving the 2006 World Cup in Germany and said he knew nothing of a multi-million payment to a disgraced former FIFA official in Qatar, Reuters reported.
The World Cup-winning player and coach is in the spotlight after a German FA (DFB)-commissioned report on Friday showed a payment of 10 million Swiss francs in 2002 to a firm whose sole owner then was Mohamed Bin Hammam, the former president of the Asian Football Confederation who was banned from all soccer-related activity in December 2012.
The World Cup affair, which has shocked soccer-mad Germany, was triggered by the payment from the DFB to FIFA in 2005 which the DFB said last year was the return of a loan via FIFA from former Adidas chief Robert Louis-Dreyfus.
Der Spiegel magazine alleged it was repayment of a loan used to buy votes in the 2000 election for the 2006 World Cup.
Beckenbauer told Bild newspaper's Sunday edition there was no attempt to buy votes in 2000 to get the World Cup awarded to Germany, a claim echoed by the report by Freshfields law firm that found no proof of any vote buying.
"Definitely not for that. We did not buy votes. It (payment) was about a provision of security," Beckenbauer claimed. "In order to get a financial contribution from FIFA. Otherwise there would not be a World Cup in Germany."
Beckenbauer's claim, however, has been rejected by both FIFA and the DFB with the report saying the 6.7 million euro payment to FIFA equalling at the time about 10 million Swiss francs was then sent straight on to the late Louis-Dreyfus.


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