Beckenbauer’s claims ‘absurd’

German football has been engulfed by claims that a 6.7 million euro ($7.2 million) remuneration to FIFA was used to squeeze a votes of 4 members of FIFA’s executive cabinet in 2000 — days before Germany narrowly won a right to horde a 2006 finals.

Beckenbauer, like a former arch of Germany’s football organization Wolfgang Niersbach, has insisted that no temptation was concerned and that a sum had to be paid to FIFA in sequence to obtain a bigger extend from universe football’s ruling body.

But Blatter called a explain “absurd” in an talk with Der Spiegel magazine.

“Pay income to get money? No. There’s no such thing during FIFA,” pronounced a 79-year-old, adding that a German Football Association (DFB) “must transparent adult this affair”.

“There are always papers for anything to do with money. If a DFB is incompetent to yield documents, afterwards it should proceed FIFA to get to a bottom of a issue,” he said.

Beckenbauer, who led Germany’s successful bid for a World Cup, is underneath review by FIFA, nonetheless a ruling physique has not suggested because he was being probed.

Blatter himself is dangling by a organization he has headed for 17 years, and faces a conference during a ethics cabinet subsequent week over allegations of corruption.

The swindle quarrel opposite a Blatter had erupted over a $2 million remuneration (1.9 million euro) finished by FIFA to UEFA arch Michel Platini in 2011.

Platini has claimed it was for work finished a decade earlier. But both group now face lifetime bans from football over a case.

Blatter told Spiegel however that he was “convinced he would not be punished”.

Separately, Swiss prosecutors have pronounced they were targeting Blatter for probable rapist mismanagement during his reign as FIFA’s president, including signing off on a doubtful TV rights deal.