DFB suspended second referee

The Deutsche Fussball Bund (DfB) has suspended a second referee on "urgent suspicion" of involvement in match-fixing, while ordering a second division match ‘fixed’ by Robert Hoyzer to be replayed. The DfB revealed that referee Dominik Marks was suspected of having fixed two matches in the second division and regional league after being implicated by Hoyzer, the 25-year-old Berlin-based official at the centre of the scandal. Marks is now also suspected of having helped Hoyzer in his attempt to recruit another referee, Torsten Koop. The DfB said statements made by Hoyzer to Berlin prosecutors, as well as a declaration to the DfB by Koop, put Marks under suspicion. The DfB's sports court also decided that the second division match between LR Ahlen and Wacker Burghausen on 22 October 2004 would have to be replayed. Ahlen won the match 1-0 after Hoyzer help fix the result. It is the first match the DfB has ordered to be replayed since the investigation began. No date for the replay has been set. The Deutsche Fussball Bund (DfB) committee of control has recommended a €50,000 fine and a lifetime ban for Robert Hoyzer, which could remain in prison on "investigative custody" for up to three months.

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