Wolfgang Niersbach, who was a member of the 2006 bid committee and vice-president of the organising committee, has been charged with complicity in fraud. — Reuters pic
Hors Schmidt, former secretary of the German football federation, has also been charged with fraud — along with the Swiss Urs Linsi, secretary general of Fifa from June 1999 to June 2007. Proceedings against Franz Beckenbauer, a football legend in Germany, also implicated in the investigation, have been deferred because of the 1974 World Cup winning captain’s ill health. The attorney general’s statement said that Beckenbauer “is unable for health reasons to participate or to be questioned in the main hearing in the Federal Criminal Court .”
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