Last October, it was claimed the German World Cup winner was facing a ban from football having been publicly named as being under investigation.

The 70-year-old had previously been implicated in the scandals regarding the bidding for both tournaments, which were controversially given to Russia and Qatar respectively, after allegedly refusing to cooperate with investigations.

He was originally suspended for 90 days by the world governing body in 2014, but had the sanction lifted in June of that year after agreeing to participate in the inquiry.

Beckenbauer, who was a member of FIFA's ruling Executive Committee at the time of the vote for the tournaments in 2010, was found by the Ethics Committee to have not responded to requests to provide information during an in-person interview as well as to written questions in English and German.

“Mr Beckenbauer thus did not behave in accordance with the general rules of conduct applicable to football officials in the context of the investigations, thereby violating article 13 of the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE),” an Ethics Committee statement read.

“In addition, the adjudicatory chamber found Mr Beckenbauer to have violated article 18 (Duty of disclosure, cooperation and reporting) and article 42 (General obligation to collaborate) of the FCE.”

Having then demonstrated a “willingness to cooperate” the Committee have sanctioned him with a warning and a CHF 7,000 (£4,900/$7,000/€6,300) fine.

The case, though, did not investigate the bidding process for the 2006 World Cup, which was awarded to Germany back in 2000.

Beckenbauer, who led the German bid, is at the centre of a lawsuit launched by the German Football Association (DFB) regarding alleged corruption.

The German Bid Committee was accused by magazine Der Spiegel last October of having used a €6.7 million (£5 million/$7.6 million) slush fund to buy votes.

Both Beckenbauer and then DSB President Wolfgang Niersbach were claimed to have known about the alleged fund, although both men have denied the claims.

Niersbach resigned from his post in November following the scandal, while his predecessor Theo Zwanziger and the association's former general secretary Horst R. Schmidt were also allegedly implicated.

It was alleged that a loan had been made by former Adidas chief executive Robert Louis-Dreyfus to the Bid Committee, which did not appear on accounts, with the money then used to bribe four Asian members of FIFA's Executive Committee.

Ultimately the German bid defeated South Africa by a narrow margin of 12 votes to 11, with New Zealand's Charlie Dempsey abstaining from the second round of voting after stating there had been "intolerable pressure" prior to the ballot.

Law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are currently investigating what happened on behalf of the DFB, and will publish its findings in March.