The German Football Organization (German: Deutscher Fußball-Bund [ˈdɔʏtʃɐ ˈfuːsbalˌbʊnt]; DFB [ˌdeːʔɛfˈbeː] is the regulating body of football (or soccer ) in Germany. An establishing member of both FIFA and also UEFA, the DFB has territory for the German football organization system and also is in charge of the males s as well as women s national groups. The DFB headquarters remain in Frankfurt am Key. Sole members of the DFB are the German Football League (German: Deutsche Fußball Liga; DFL), organising the expert Bundesliga and the 2. Bundesliga, in addition to 5 local and 21 state associations, organising the semi-professional and also amateur levels. The 21 state associations of the DFB have a mixed number of more than 25,000 clubs with greater than 6.8 million members, making the DFB the single biggest DFB officialss federation in the globe.
The public prosecutor s office Frankfurt / Main has set a tax procedure against the DFB interim president Rainer Koch (62). This informed the judicial authority on request from the German Press Agency.
Cook Defender Frank Eckstein, Specialist lawyer for criminal law in Munich, said: After intensive investigations and numerous witnesses, the initial suspicion against Rainer Koch has not confirmed. Koch has been in DFB for years high offices. The President of the Bavarian Football Association also includes the UEFA executive.
In the course of the investigations, became clear that Rainer Koch - as has repeatedly carried forward for twelve months - has not been involved in the preparation or submission of tax returns of the German Football Federation (DFB) itself and thus does not contribute to any responsibility, said His lawyer.
A few months ago, the procedures against the former DFB peak functional Reinhard Rauball and Helmut Sandrock had already been set. A total of six DFB officials had been accused of tax evasion in particularly severe cases. There were house searches for DFB officials and also in the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt.
The procedure is about revenue from gamen advertising in games of the German national team, which should not have been properly declared and taxed in the years 2014 and 2015. According to Koch s lawyer, the DFB also considers that the tax returns had been legally prepared and therefore the procedures against all accused and thus also to be held the DFB itself.
Koch currently carries out the DFB, together with Peter Peters, after Fritz Keller resigned in May. A new president will be elected on the Bundestag on March 11, 2022 in Frankfurt / Main. Koch does not want to run more than 1. Vice-President.
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