Will it be tight now for the acting DFB boss Rainer Koch (62)?
According to BamS information, the cook, who came under pressure in the affair of the former DFB media advisor Kurt Diekmann (74), has to explain himself together with treasurer Stephan Osnabrügge (50) at the meeting of the 21 regional association heads on October 25 and 26 in Frankfurt.
Background: Diekmann has apparently worked for the DFB earlier than previously claimed, at the latest from February 28, 2019. In all likelihood, however, even earlier. This is evidenced by documents that are available to BamS. Among various fee claims, Diekmann was already leading a total of 16,000 euros on February 28, 2019.
In other words, at a time when the DFB had not even provided Diekmann with the 372,000 euro consultancy contract. Internal control committees complained about this in the DFB weeks ago because it should not be clear for which activities Diekmann received the six-figure sum.
Koch, Osnabrügge and the former DFB general secretary Friedrich Curtius had claimed that Diekmann had only been working for the DFB since May 2019. The documents available to BamS show that this is not the case. A sovereign on BamS: “There are new facts. They now have to be refuted or questions answered. “
Koch did not want to comment on the publication of the Diekmann list in response to a BamS request “for a very simple reason: I am personally not aware of the process described.”
Koch not only threatens hardship at the meeting of the sovereigns. A few days later, he had to ask himself critical questions again at the DFB executive committee meeting on October 29 in Frankfurt. DFL supervisory board chairman Peter Peters, currently in addition to Koch interim dual leadership, wants to address the internal audit report on Diekmann again.
The big question: who commissioned Diekmann with what, in writing or orally, in autumn 2018?
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