Uli Hoeness, the hunter hunted
The manager of Bayern, who proclaimed himself as a moral reference, va tangled in prison addiction risk investments and deceptions to the treasury.
"It is the height paid hundreds of millions to get them out of the shit and then do not pay." That was from two years ago the president of Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeness, criticizing the debt of Spanish football clubs. Today he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for evading nearly 30 million euros in taxes.
The steering 62 perfectly embodies the figure of the hunted hunter: the story of a moral benchmark that spends years whipping the financial upheavals in world football and ends up in jail entangled in addiction risk investments and deceptions to the Treasury .
"I evaded taxes," said Hoeness this week for a trial followed with great expectations inside and outside Germany. The Bayern chief confessed to cutting her compulsion to gamble on the stock market business to "lose sight of the benefits and losses." "It's something that can happen when you bet and is crazy."
The image shocked rampant betting in Germany, where the manager had a very different reputation.
Hoeness president was not only the most successful club of the moment, the enviable benefits of the five titles last season, managed to seduce a Josep Guardiola courted worldwide. Also fulfilled the role of moral authority respected by the highest economic and political circles of the country.
As a general manager of Bayern Munich since 1979 and president since 2009, multiplied Hoeness billing own club and made the defense of rational attack finance and growth based on debt, an ever popular crusade in Germany and even more after the outbreak of the financial crisis.
Impulsive and informal, did not seek to condemn euphemisms such astronomical debts Real Madrid. In 2009, when the Spanish club finalizing the signings of Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo, Hoeness issued a warning today seems dramatically applicable to their own destiny.
"Real Madrid will have a problem when it repossessed the Bernabeu stadium, when a bailiff anyone to close because they can not keep paying the debt," warned Hoeness. "Both the pitcher goes to the source ... And let it keep going to the well, and will see how it breaks."
The water broke today, but Hoeness, after a year of bashing public figure and a four-day show trial that laid bare what made the manager with their personal finances while criticizing the rest of the world.
Hoeness tried to avoid jail by presenting self-reporting in early 2013 in which he admitted having a hidden account in Switzerland for not paying taxes.
But from the first day of trial began on Monday became clear that Hoeness had also lied in this presentation and the actual evasion admitted several times higher. The final amount for which he was convicted: 28.5 million euros (39.7 million dollars).
In a country like Germany, where the welfare state is based on a strong tax burden and tax evasion generates great social condemnation, Hoeness lost favor with the public and before losing the trial. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel was "disappointed."
"A gambler acting irresponsibly can not fulfill the function of setting an example, also in the face of the younger, as president of a popular sports club", said today the anti-corruption organization Transparency International, which called for the immediate dismissal of Hoeness at Bayern.
"He had many years to put his affairs in order," snapped the judge today in announcing the sentence. "But he did not. Return, as you yourself admitted, he devoted himself to gain time." Two years ago, nobody would have been surprised that these words came from the mouth of Hoeness to discuss a club in debt.
- futbol.as.com
"It is the height paid hundreds of millions to get them out of the shit and then do not pay." That was from two years ago the president of Bayern Munich, Uli Hoeness, criticizing the debt of Spanish football clubs. Today he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for evading nearly 30 million euros in taxes.
The steering 62 perfectly embodies the figure of the hunted hunter: the story of a moral benchmark that spends years whipping the financial upheavals in world football and ends up in jail entangled in addiction risk investments and deceptions to the Treasury .
"I evaded taxes," said Hoeness this week for a trial followed with great expectations inside and outside Germany. The Bayern chief confessed to cutting her compulsion to gamble on the stock market business to "lose sight of the benefits and losses." "It's something that can happen when you bet and is crazy."
The image shocked rampant betting in Germany, where the manager had a very different reputation.
Hoeness president was not only the most successful club of the moment, the enviable benefits of the five titles last season, managed to seduce a Josep Guardiola courted worldwide. Also fulfilled the role of moral authority respected by the highest economic and political circles of the country.
As a general manager of Bayern Munich since 1979 and president since 2009, multiplied Hoeness billing own club and made the defense of rational attack finance and growth based on debt, an ever popular crusade in Germany and even more after the outbreak of the financial crisis.
Impulsive and informal, did not seek to condemn euphemisms such astronomical debts Real Madrid. In 2009, when the Spanish club finalizing the signings of Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo, Hoeness issued a warning today seems dramatically applicable to their own destiny.
"Real Madrid will have a problem when it repossessed the Bernabeu stadium, when a bailiff anyone to close because they can not keep paying the debt," warned Hoeness. "Both the pitcher goes to the source ... And let it keep going to the well, and will see how it breaks."
The water broke today, but Hoeness, after a year of bashing public figure and a four-day show trial that laid bare what made the manager with their personal finances while criticizing the rest of the world.
Hoeness tried to avoid jail by presenting self-reporting in early 2013 in which he admitted having a hidden account in Switzerland for not paying taxes.
But from the first day of trial began on Monday became clear that Hoeness had also lied in this presentation and the actual evasion admitted several times higher. The final amount for which he was convicted: 28.5 million euros (39.7 million dollars).
In a country like Germany, where the welfare state is based on a strong tax burden and tax evasion generates great social condemnation, Hoeness lost favor with the public and before losing the trial. Even Chancellor Angela Merkel was "disappointed."
"A gambler acting irresponsibly can not fulfill the function of setting an example, also in the face of the younger, as president of a popular sports club", said today the anti-corruption organization Transparency International, which called for the immediate dismissal of Hoeness at Bayern.
"He had many years to put his affairs in order," snapped the judge today in announcing the sentence. "But he did not. Return, as you yourself admitted, he devoted himself to gain time." Two years ago, nobody would have been surprised that these words came from the mouth of Hoeness to discuss a club in debt.
- futbol.as.com
