A probe into suspected ticket and hospitality violations at Euro 2024 saw the German FA’s offices raided by investigators on Wednesday, it has been reported.
According to German newspaper Bild, the Deutscher Fussball Bund (DFB, the German FA) was visited as part of nationwide searches, prompted by investigations into a German national, a French national, and others.
Prosecutors in Bochum and the criminal office of North Rhine-Westphalia issued a joint-statement, saying searches were taking place in several locations around Germany, although the DFB’s offices were not mentioned.
Per Bild, the case relates to hotel invitations and several thousand tickets, which might have been illegally allocated to preferred guests ahead of Euro 2024, which was hosted by Germany and took place in 10 cities.
The German national, at the time a municipal employee from the host city of Gelsenkirchen, was suspected to have received tickets, travel and hotel benefits worth $2,736.
According to German newspaper Bild, the Deutscher Fussball Bund (DFB, the German FA) was visited as part of nationwide searches, prompted by investigations into a German national, a French national, and others.
Prosecutors in Bochum and the criminal office of North Rhine-Westphalia issued a joint-statement, saying searches were taking place in several locations around Germany, although the DFB’s offices were not mentioned.
Per Bild, the case relates to hotel invitations and several thousand tickets, which might have been illegally allocated to preferred guests ahead of Euro 2024, which was hosted by Germany and took place in 10 cities.
The German national, at the time a municipal employee from the host city of Gelsenkirchen, was suspected to have received tickets, travel and hotel benefits worth $2,736.
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