DFB complains as tax raid details made public

MUNICH (AP) — The German football federation has started legal proceedings after details of a tax investigation were made public.

The DFB said Friday it filed a complaint with the public prosecutor's office in Munich following a raid by tax investigators at its headquarters in Frankfurt on Monday.

The federation said that details of the raid "clearly entered the public domain in advance. This founds the suspicion that public officials wrongfully divulged confidential company information to outside parties."

It added that "further legal proceedings will follow in …