Report: FBI investigating payment made before 2006 World Cup

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Report: FBI investigating payment made before 2006 World Cup

BERLIN (AP) — German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports the FBI has opened a corruption investigation into the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany.

SZ says it has been told by "sources close to FIFA" that the FBI is concerned about a suspect payment made by the German football federation to FIFA before the tournament was awarded.

The DFB said the money was a loan of 10 million Swiss francs — the equivalent of 6.7 million euros or $7.22 million — from then-Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus, to FIFA in 2002 to obtain a large grant for the World Cup organizing committee. It's unclear who exactly received the money, however.

The payment is also the target of a tax evasion investigation by German authorities and Swiss authorities.

-- (c) Associated Press 2016-01-24

[JetsetBkk]

Germany? No, no! Never! Not those nice Germans.too.

[Srikcir]

Is there going to be any world cup game that hasn't been tainted by corruption?

More amazing is that the USA FBI is spearheading the investigations rather than EU and/or other national law enforcement authorities.

[reggaebkk]

Germany? No, no! Never! Not those nice Germans.too.

Everybody... even the USA world cup,France 98.., it's always been the way of FIFA.

But I don't expect it's going to change, I think it is just a coup to change the pockets but not the M.O.

[Baerboxer]

Germany? No, no! Never! Not those nice Germans.too.

Siemens caught bribing.

VW caught cheating and lying.

Several government ministers found to have cheated to get PhD's.

Not a lot changes.

[Ulic]

FIFA is corrupt from top to bottom. Time to start over with a new football federation.