Overview
- Munster’s public prosecutor filed an indictment for ten counts of commercial fraud, sending the case against Marc Lorenz to the local court.
- Investigators say he used his status as a professional footballer to run ten donation drives between 2022 and 2025.
- About €54,000 from roughly 3,700 gifts was allegedly kept instead of being passed to causes such as the Clinic Clowns in Münster and a bereaved family.
- The indictment says he moved the money to personal accounts and later repaid it, which prosecutors view as belated and not removing criminal liability.
- Lorenz denies criminal intent and cites personal and mental-health problems, while Preußen Münster fired him in August 2025 and later reached an out-of-court settlement in March 2026.