Bavaria
On Wednesday, FC Bayern received a visit from the Mannheim public prosecutor. The office was searched.
As the “Bild” reported on Thursday, ten investigators appeared at the club's premises in Säbener Strasse around 10 a.m. After that, the premises of the German record champions were searched, furthermore finance director Jan-Christian Dreesen, chief legal advisor Michael Gerlinger and internationalization director Jörg Wacker should have been questioned.
The house search was carried out in the course of proceedings against the controversial ticket platform “Viagogo”. Tax evasion is suspected.
“In the investigations that the Mannheim public prosecutor's office is carrying out together with the tax investigators at FC Bayern München AG, neither FC Bayern München, nor any of the people who acted or previously acted, nor a superordinate football organization or a football association are the subject of the investigation these are only considered as witnesses in the course of investigations against a third company “, the association had stated according to the report.
The Munich-based company once worked together with the ticket platform, but ended the cooperation seven years ago and founded a platform itself for the distribution of tickets with fair prices.
In addition to Bayern, the authorities had also appeared at FC Augsburg, 1. FC Nürnberg, VfB Stuttgart or 1. FC Kaiserslautern. All clubs had ended their collaboration with the controversial ticket platform years ago.
