Germans off the hook if they give to charity

Germans off the hook if they give to charity: "Germans off the hook if they give to charity
BERLIN: The German football association (DFB) said on Friday that they would drop their case against the players and coach of a regional league side for accepting money from a Croatian gambling gang if they agreed to pay a fine to charity.
The decision is the latest step by the DFB in the match-fixing scandal that has rocked the country hosting the 2006 World Cup Finals.
SC Paderborn have been embroiled in the scandal after Robert Hoyzer, the referee at the centre of allegations, acknowledged he had engineered their victory over Hamburg SV in the first round of this season's German Cup. "