Wolfgang Niersbach, president of the German Football Association (DFB) arrives for a news conference at the DFB headquarters in Frankfurt October 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
(Reuters) - Pressure on German Football Association (DFB) chief Wolfgang Niersbach increased considerably on Wednesday after tax raids a day earlier on the world's largest soccer federation in relation to a World Cup 2006 payment to FIFA stunned the nation.
On Tuesday more than 50 police and tax investigators raided the DFB headquarters as well as Niersbach's and other officials' private homes in search for evidence that could back up suspicions by the Frankfurt prosecutor's office the president, during his time as World cup 2006 organising committee Vice President, and two former committee colleagues did not pay tax on a controversial transfer to FIFA in 2005.
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