The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court reopened the proceedings against former DFB officials Horst R. Schmidt, Theo Zwanziger and Wolfgang Niersbach on suspicion of tax evasion.
A discontinuation order of the Regional Court of 27 October 2022 was thus annulled. The public prosecutor's office accuses the three defendants of evasion or aiding and abetting the evasion of corporate income tax, solidarity surcharge, trade tax and sales tax for the year 2006. The investigation into the cash flows in the "Summer Fairy Tale Affair" has been dragging on for several years.