Former Bayern star Franck Ribéry is believed to have been the victim of an attempted manipulation of millions.

On Tuesday, the Munich Regional Court dismissed the action brought by the advisor Bruno Heiderscheid, who demanded a good three million euros in commission from Ribery for arranging the move to FC Bayern in 2007.

The written expert commissioned by the court came to the conclusion that the contract with professional soccer player Ribéry presented by Heiderscheid is very likely not genuine.

According to the expert opinion, the text of the contract was presumably added later under Ribéry's signature.

The consultant had presented two pieces of evidence to the court at the beginning of the trial four years ago: a handwritten contract with both signatures on a sticky note and a copy of a machine-written confirmation.

"If an authentic signature is used and a text is only added later, it is called a blank forgery," said the reviewer.

Who carried out the alleged manipulations was not an issue in the process - it was only about the question of whether Heiderscheid is entitled to the required million-euro commission.

The confirmation is therefore not kosher either: “There is an overwhelming probability that the signature was copied into it,” summarized the chairwoman judge Isabel Liesegang. In the text, Heiderscheid was promised ten percent commission for a transfer from Ribery, which FC Bayern had for Ribéry In 2007 a 30 million euro transfer fee paid

The 38-year-old moved to Fiorentina after leaving Bayern in the summer of 2019 and is currently without a club.

"He should be satisfied"

The process took four years, an extraordinarily long time for a regional court.

The expert had already been appointed by the Chamber three years ago, he checked a total of 90 comparative signatures of Ribéry.

However, the continuation of the process was repeatedly delayed.

Most recently, Heiderscheid called in sick, the consultant's lawyer resigned, as judge Liesegang said.

But the court refused to postpone the judgment again.

The chamber announced its decision by default because neither Heiderscheid nor a lawyer appointed by him appeared in court.

Heiderscheid has two weeks to file an objection.

"I assume that he is satisfied with today," said Ribéry's lawyer Gerhard Riedl.