Ribery allegedly victim of attempted manipulation of millions

Updated on 07/27/2021, 1:28 p.m.

• Franck Ribery is apparently the victim of an attempted manipulation of millions.
• The Munich Regional Court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the advisor Bruno Heiderscheid, who wanted to sue Ribery for around three million euros in commission.
• However, the documents presented by the consultant as evidence were found to be forgeries.

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Former Bayern star Franck Ribery is alleged to have been the victim of an attempted manipulation of millions. On Tuesday, the Munich Regional Court dismissed the action brought by the advisor Bruno Heiderscheid, who demanded a good three million euros in commission from Ribery for arranging the move to FC Bayern in 2007. The written expert commissioned by the court came to the conclusion that the contract with professional soccer player Ribery presented by Heiderscheid is very likely not genuine. According to the expert opinion, the text of the contract was presumably added later under Ribery’s autograph signature.

After leaving Bayern in the summer of 2019, the 38-year-old moved to Florence and is currently without a club.

Alleged pieces of evidence are apparently forged

The consultant had presented two pieces of evidence to the court at the beginning of the trial four years ago: a handwritten contract with both signatures on a sticky note and a copy of a machine-written confirmation. “If an authentic signature is used and a text is only added later, it is called a blank forgery,” said the reviewer. “It happens a lot.” According to the expert, the confirmation is also bogus: “It is very likely that we have a copy assembly here.”

In the text, Heiderscheid was promised ten percent commission for a transfer from Ribery, while FC Bayern had paid a € 30 million transfer fee for Ribery in 2007.

The chamber announced its decision by default judgment, since neither Heiderscheid nor a lawyer appointed by him appeared in court. According to the court, the law firm most recently commissioned by Heiderscheid has resigned from its mandate. Heiderscheid has two weeks to file an objection. “I assume that he is satisfied with today,” said Ribery’s lawyer Gerhard Riedl. (dpa / ska)