Shady business: Germany cheated to host 2006 FIFA World Cup

Shortly before the final vote, German companies and politicians began to actively engage with countries, in which members of the FIFA Executive Committee lived, according to the newspaper.

Other big German corporations promised to invest large sums of money into industries in Thailand and South Korea. Moreover, the government of Gerhard Schroeder supplied anti-tank grenade launchers to Saudi Arabia one week prior to the voting procedure. Although the election of Germany as the 2006 FIFA World Cup host might have been shady, from the judicial point of view the process was quite legal, the German newspaper reported. Earlier, Constant Omari, the president of the Football Federation of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said that representatives of the German Football Association won the right to host the 2006 World Cup after "buying the vote of Oceania."

Source: Sputniknews.com