Justice has Beckenbauer's health assessed

The appeal chamber of the Swiss Federal Criminal Court confirmed a corresponding request for legal assistance to the authorities in Beckenbauer's adopted home of Austria. The report is intended to contribute to the decision on whether to continue the criminal proceedings against the emperor.

Together with the announcement of the request for legal assistance, the chamber rejected the objections of the former DFB presidents Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach, the former DFB general secretary Horst R. Schmidt and the ex-FIFA general secretary Urs Linsi against the separation of the “Causa Beckenbauer” from theirs Proceedings for complicity in fraud or aiding and abetting fraud. Due to Beckenbauer's unclear state of health on the one hand and the statute of limitations for the allegations against the defendant quartet, which will expire next April, on the other hand, the separate continuation of the proceedings is appropriate and legally correct, it was stated in the justification.

Basically, Beckenbauer is considered a key figure in the scandal surrounding an incorrectly declared payment by the World Cup organizers of 6,7 million euros in 2005. The authorities in Switzerland and also in Germany, where Zwanziger as well as Niersbach, Schmidt and Linsi also filed a complaint Trial for tax evasion is imminent, assume a disguised repayment of an amount that indirectly ended up via a Beckenbauer account with football official Mohammed Bin Hammam (Qatar), who was banned for corruption.

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Justice has Beckenbauer's health assessed

In the investigation into the affair surrounding the 2006 World Cup, the Swiss judiciary is having the health of the then head of the organization, Franz Beckenbauer, assessed.

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