Hoeness Backed as Bayern Chairman After Board Debates Tax Probe

BERLIN - Embattled Uli Hoeness will stay on as Bayern Munich president despite having offered to temporarily resign while he faces tax evasion allegations. The announcement was made after a meeting of the Champions League finalists' supervisory ...

Bayern Munich's honorary president Franz Beckenbauer has welcomed the club's decision to turn down president Uli Hoeness' offer to resign. Hoeness recently made a self-denunciation to the German tax authorities that he had not declared taxes on an ...

Embattled Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness, at the centre of a tax evasion scandal, first came into the crosshair of authorities in the middle of last year when his name appeared on a CD listing Germans with Swiss bank accounts, a report said ...

Embattled Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has admitted in an interview that he is going through "hell'' as the tax evasion scandal he has become caught up in shows no signs of abating. Arrest ... Uli Hoeness is out on bail pending tax evasion ...

Bayern Munich boss' Swiss bank account renews tax evasion debate The admission by the president of Germany's football champions Bayern Munich that he held a Swiss bank account have reignitd a political debate in the country about tax evasion.

The case of Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness is heating up the German election campaign and presenting a challenge to the courts, which have gone easy on wealthy tax offenders until now. The high-profile case is likely to mean harsher punishments ...

Uli Hoeness, the president of top Bayern Munich and an icon of German club soccer, could end up behind bars for tax evasion. The case has highlighted the dark side of the skilful entrepreneur and philanthropist whose burning ambition made Bayern ...

The tax probeof Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness presents a danger for Chancellor Angela Merkel five months beforegeneral elections.The case makes her look weak on fighting tax evasion, a potentially major campaign issue. That explains why she ...

By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - German football great Uli Hoeness said on Wednesday he made "a foolish mistake" by evading taxes, a scandal that has hurt his friend Chancellor Angela Merkel in her re-election bid, but hoped his decision to ...