Beckenbauer says unknowingly of income to Qatari firm

Former organizing arch Franz Beckenbauer denied any indiscretion on Saturday in an event involving a 2006 World Cup in Germany and pronounced he knew zero of a multi-million remuneration to a ashamed former FIFA central in Qatar.

The World Cup affair, that has repelled soccer-mad Germany, was triggered by a remuneration from a DFB to FIFA in 2005 that a DFB pronounced final year was a lapse of a loan around FIFA from former Adidas arch Robert Louis-Dreyfus.

Beckenbauer’s claim, however, has been deserted by both FIFA and a DFB with a news observant a 6.7 million euro remuneration to FIFA equaling during a time about 10 million Swiss francs was afterwards sent true on to a late Louis-Dreyfus.

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