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A dentist from Schleswig-Holstein has been sentenced to a total imprisonment of three years and eight months for billing fraud amounting to almost one million euros.
The judges at the Kiel district court also ordered the confiscation of around 340,000 euros.
The public prosecutor's office had also applied for a three-year professional ban as a self-billing dentist - the chamber did not see the necessary requirements for this.
According to the court's assessment, the once very successful dentist with a prosperous practice, an upscale lifestyle and expensive cars got into personal and financial difficulties after 2005.
After a car accident, he was sentenced to a fine for negligent homicide, said the presiding judge Stephan Worpenberg.
Later one of his daughters became seriously ill and there was a serious marital crisis.
The dentist was finally unable to work because of a burnout.
The judge said that he did not adapt his expensive lifestyle to the circumstances.
Instead, according to the judgment, the dentist faked very expensive patient treatments from 2008 to 2011 and sold the receivables to service companies (factoring companies).
They paid him the invoice amount immediately - minus a processing fee.
He himself then repaid the amounts in installments - a "temporary loan," as the court found.
The 52-year-old had largely confessed.
The man does not have to go to jail for the time being.
The arrest warrant against him was suspended against weekly reporting requirements, reports, among others, the "Hamburger Morgenpost" and RTL.
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