German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer has answered questions posed to him by FIFA investigators over the tainted 2022 World Cup bid, his management says.
"For your information: The FIFA ethics commission this afternoon received the answers of Franz Beckenbauer to all their questions via mail and fax," Beckenbauer's manager Marcus Hoefl wrote on Twitter.
FIFA provisionally suspended the German icon for 90 days last week because he had not responded to questions from investigator Michael Garcia, who is probing corruption allegations in connection with the 2010 vote to grant the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Beckenbauer was a member of the deciding FIFA executive committee at the time. FIFA said on Tuesday that Beckenbauer was the only official who did not respond in the probe.
He will now hope that his suspension is lifted in time to allow him to attend the current World Cup in Brazil.
English news reports in recent weeks suggested that former FIFA top official Mohammed Bin Hammam aimed to buy Asian and African votes for his home country of Qatar.
They also said that Beckenbauer was invited twice to Qatar by Bin Hammam.
Beckenbauer has dismissed corruption allegations. He said he didn't answer Garcia's question because he didn't understand the English legal terms.
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