Involvement in a Financial Scandal: Before leaving Nati, Inka Grings vehemently defended herself

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Inka Grings (45) is no longer national coach, she is a victim of involvement in the financial scandal surrounding the German top club SV Straelen. She had never disclosed internally to her employer, SFV, that she was under investigation.

Even if it does not bring her back the Nati job – an hour and a half before the announcement of her departure from the Nati, Grings vehemently defended herself against the accusation that she had knowingly received half her salary at SV Straelen and that she only received it was employed by a company owned by club chairman Hermann Tecklenburg (75).

“I was accused of paying too low social security contributions. The accusation is false. “I have always properly stated all payments I have received in my tax returns,” Grings writes in the statement available from Blick.

The national coach explains: “Social contributions are paid directly by the employer with the wage bill. As a coach I was an ordinary employee of the club. The decision as to which taxes had to be paid because of my employment relationship was not made by me, but by the management or tax advisor of my employer. The accusation of complicity in withholding wages that was originally leveled against me is therefore untrue.”

Unlike the major indictment against Tecklenburg, the proceedings against Grings are considered closed. This is because they and the Public Prosecution Service agreed to pay a sum of money to the state treasury. In this context, Grings emphasizes what Blick already wrote on Thursday: the termination of the procedure is not a conviction. Likewise, their payment of money is not legally considered a fine or punishment.

Grings paid to complete the process quickly

Grings describes: “The Public Prosecution Service offered to stop the proceedings against me in exchange for paying a small amount of money. Because even if I had been guilty, which I wasn’t, the guilt would be very small. For timely and financial reasons and because of other advantages that a speedy and final settlement of the proceedings against me would bring, I have agreed and paid the fine.”

The former world-class striker further writes that her payment of money should not be construed as an admission of guilt. “On the contrary: the charges against me have finally been resolved. The presumption of innocence applies in full.”

The SFV only found out after the scandal broke out in the media.

Source : Blick