German bid reportedly used €6.7m slush fund to secure 2006 FIFA World Cup

[smurfy]

[url]http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/16/german-fa-buy-votes-2006-world-cup[/url]
[quote]German 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 have 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, a former majority shareholder in the French club Marseille, who died in 2009, is claimed to have borrowed the money and lent it to the bidding committee.

The executive is said to have called in the loan a year and a half before the World Cup and Der Spiegel alleges that the money was returned to him via Fifa.[/quote]

[Wizards Court]

wouldn't be surprised if every world cup in the last few years had corruption involved(or potentially, ever).