• Der Spiegel claims it appears money was used to secure votes
• ‘No indications at all of votes being bought,’ says German FAGerman football has been drawn into the ever widening Fifa corruption crisis after it was alleged that the former Adidas chief executive Robert Louis-Dreyfus set up a 10.3m Swiss francs (€6.7m) slush fund to buy votes and secure the right to stage the 2006 World Cup.
Der Spiegel said that the money was likely to beget been used to secure the votes of four members of the Fifa executive committee before the hugely controversial vote in 2000, in which Germany triumphed by 12 votes to 11 over South Africa. Louis-Dreyfus, or a former majority shareholder in the French club Marseille,who died in 2009, is claimed to beget borrowed the money and lent it to the bidding committee.
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Source: theguardian.com