Uli Hoeneß, the son of a butcher, rose to
fame as Bayern Munich's powerful president and a millionaire businessman who
bounced back despite a spectacular own goal which landed him in jail.
Tax-evading former Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeness has been freed on day release, it emerged Friday - just seven months after being jailed for hiding some 28.5 million euros from the tax authorities.
UPDATE: A man who admitted to trying to blackmail jailed football legend Uli Hoeneß, former boss of Bayern Munich, for hundreds of thousands of euros was sentenced to three years nine months in prison on Tuesday.
Former Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß has lost weight and is living a spartan existence while serving his prison sentence for tax evasion, according to ex-Germany international Gunter Netzer.
The disgraced former president of Bayern Munich FC, Uli Hoeneß has paid €30 million of his outstanding taxes, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Monday, and has taken a day off prison.
Police have arrested a man who tried to blackmail former Bayern Munich supremo Uli Hoeneß, threatening him with violence when he starts his prison term for tax evasion.
Bayern Munich on Saturday named their financial mastermind Karl Hopfner as successor to disgraced president Uli Hoeneß, who was convicted this week of tax fraud.
UPDATE: Bayern Munich’s boss Uli Hoeneß resigned from all his posts at the club on Friday morning and decided against appealing his sentence for tax evasion. It means he will now start a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence.
UPDATE: Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß faced a damaging testimony in a tax trial on Tuesday when an official charged the German football legend had withheld incriminating evidence for over a year and avoided €23.7 million in tax.
On the first day of his tax evasion trial, Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß confessed he had evaded at least €18.5 million in taxes - €15 million more than prosecutors had initially believed.
The trial of Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß kicks off on Monday in a case which could rewrite legal history. But fans told The Local they would stand by the football legend even if he is sent to jail.
German football legend Uli Hoeneß, boss of champion club Bayern Munich, will face a high-profile tax evasion trial from Monday, accused of having stashed away millions in Switzerland.
Bayern Munich has signed a €110 million investment deal with insurance giant Allianz, securing funds for its stadium and youth training centre, the club announced on Tuesday.
It is starting to look like to be someone in Germany you have to pay back taxes on money that has been stashed away in a tax haven. The spate of apologies is being prompted by a race-against-time clause, a law professor told The Local.
The number of people coming forward to declare unpaid tax to German authorities has tripled in the wake of the high profile case of Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß, who faces trial this year for alleged tax evasion.
Injured Germany captain Michael Ballack has been urged to retire from international football by Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß and forget about leading the national team at Euro 2012.
Twenty-three days after being fired from coaching Bayern Munich, Jürgen Klinsmann aired his grievances in public for the first time on Tuesday ahead of a live TV interview with top presenter Günther Jauch to be aired Wednesday evening on the commercial channel RTL.
Bayern Munich are preparing for a "brutal fight" to stop playmaker Franck Ribery falling into the clutches of would-be suitors like super-rich Manchester City.
