The former managers of the Miesbacher Sparkasse now have to answer to the BGH for infidelity in the form of gifts and expensive restaurant visits.
Miesbach / Karlsruhe - There was a riot in donation trousers in April 2019, when the then heads of the Miesbacher Sparkasse had to answer before the Munich Regional Court II.
Ex-boss Georg Bromme was sentenced to one and a half years on probation.
Together with the former CSU district administrator and chairman of the board of directors, Jakob Kreidl, who received 11 months probation.
Sparkasse scandal in Miesbach: Former managers have to answer before the BGH
Since the public prosecutor and Bromme appealed at the time, the case is now on Tuesday (May 4) before the Federal Court of Justice.
When going through the documents relating to the Miesbacher Sparkasse affair, the judges of the first criminal senate took a look at all the embezzlement.
The bank had co-financed trips to five-star hotels and invitations for several years.
There were also gifts for local politicians, colleagues, board members and the Tyrolean State Hunting Association.
Not only that elicited laughter from the judges in Karlsruhe.
They also wondered how expensive the wine must be for a duck dinner with restaurant costs of several thousand euros.
In the afternoon they wanted to announce whether they have come to a judgment in the appeal proceedings around ex-Sparkasse boss Georg Bromme and the former CSU district administrator and board chairman Jakob Kreidl or whether they will have to think about it for a while.
In view of the complex case, the presiding judge Rolf Raum initially assumed that the Senate would need more time (Ref .: 1 StR 144/20).
In April 2019, the Munich II Regional Court sentenced Bromme to one and a half years for infidelity, and Kreidl to eleven months - each on probation.
Bromme and the state administration appealed.
Miesbach: Sparkasse scandal in front of the BGH in Karlsruhe - prosecution demands higher punishment
While the prosecution demands higher sentences and the withdrawal of partial acquittals, Bromme wants a smaller sentence.
In the case, it is about the fact that the Kreissparkasse has co-financed expensive trips to five-star hotels, invitations and gifts for politicians and colleagues for years.
Kreidl's lawyer Klaus Leipold spoke before the BGH of “Bavarian-Baroque, customary, habitual behavior”.
Duck meals like in Miesbach at the expense of the Sparkasse were also given elsewhere.
"That just meant something else."
His colleague Ali Norouzi said that the case was at a turning point when compliance was only beginning to take hold in companies - that is, compliance with rules and measures not to break them.
"It took a little longer for it to catch on in Upper Bavaria," he said.
You feel like you're in a Helmut Dietl film.
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(By Raffael Scherer / dpa)