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The KFC Uerdingen may have wrongly received state corona aid.
This is reported by the "Spiegel".
The third division club should now repay the money to the state.
Should he not be able to do this, tax money is likely to be lost.
In its report, the magazine cites the restructuring plan that the insolvency administrator sent the creditors in mid-April.
According to this, KFC Uerdingen 05 Fußball GmbH, which finances the professional club's gaming operations, received EUR 767,770.40 corona aid from the federal government.
The competent authority is the Cologne Administrative Office.
According to the list of creditors, she wrote a letter dated March 23rd to request that the corona aid be returned.
The association has not yet commented on the case and the allegations.
Court hearing on Thursday
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According to "Spiegel", the insolvency administrator wrote to all creditors and invited them to an appointment at the Krefeld district court on Thursday.
In the event of a breakup and forced relegation of the club, the federal government could possibly get back 135,000 euros at best, according to the insolvency administrator.
The club's managers must have known about the GmbH's insolvency well before March 2020.
According to the restructuring plan, KFC Uerdingen has liabilities of around 9.9 million euros. At the beginning of the year, the club had filed for bankruptcy under self-administration. The reason for the financial problems is the withdrawal of the Russian investor Mikhail Ponomarew, who once wanted to lead the club into the Bundesliga. The controversial entrepreneur held around 95 percent of the shares in the soccer department, and under him there were numerous scandals.