Bundesliga referees under suspicion

Several Bundesliga referees are under suspicion: they are said to not have taxed their revenues gained in test matches. For this reason, there was a raid of the police in DFB's centre.

The DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund) has confirmed a respective report of the "Express" and explained that officials arrived in Frankfurt/Main to get access of several documents about refereeing.

Moreover, according to SID (Sport-Informations-Dienst), even one popular Bundesliga referee from Munich underwent a house search which was confirmed by the concerned referee who did not want to be called by his name. [Merely Dr. Felix Brych, Peter Sippel and Günter Perl come into question].

DFB general secretary Niersbach said that "there [were] no charges against the DFB" and that "the correct payment of tax is resided with every referee himself".

The DFB referee heads Herbert Fandel and Lutz Wagner were surprised: "It is impossible for us so far to say something specific on this issue".


information taken from welt-online.