A man from Munich (49) has played the boss of a company several times to do business.
He also cheated out of money on a married couple from Bad Wiessee.
Now the man in Miesbach is on trial.
Bad Wiessee
- He actually only worked as a freelancer for a construction project company.
However, a now 49-year-old from Munich is said to have pretended to be an authorized signatory and boss to investors and customers in order to manage horrendous sums of money and to do business without authorization, although he did not shy away from forging signatures.
Now the civil engineer has to answer before the Miesbach jury.
Mann bought two Porsches on behalf of the managing director of his company
The first count dated October 2017. At that time, the man is said to have ordered two Porsches worth around 515,000 euros in a car dealership on behalf of the managing director of his company. He had submitted a fake power of attorney and the company balance sheet in order to make his authorization to purchase credible. At the request of the owner for the agreed down payment of 150,000 euros, he repeatedly put off, reported the car seller who was invited as a witness. Ultimately, that's why the deal collapsed.
In 2018 he is said to have persuaded a 25-year-old to invest one million euros with an allegedly lucrative project.
His family is said to have gradually paid a total of 295,000 euros.
The transactions were then confirmed by a letter signed with the forged signature of the manager.
But eventually the investor became suspicious, his family followed up with the company, and payments were suspended.
Defense attorney Maximilian Pauls asked the manager on the witness stand whether he would not have insisted on the investment contract.
The Dachau resident couldn't remember that.
At the time, he had already had to file for bankruptcy.
The defendant put the amount entrusted to him in his own pocket
A loan was also discussed, which is said to have been granted to the Munich-based company. The managing director believed that it was a sum of 350,000 euros. However, the repayment was not made. Judge Walter Leitner asked whether he had made a complaint, which the witness denied. According to the indictment, 343,000 euros, which are said to have been handed over to the defendant to settle accounts with the construction trades, also went into his pocket. "Have you never asked where the money went," the judge wanted to know. Again, the answer was "no". A craftsman would never have complained about outstanding invoices, the witness asserted with increasing nervousness. In the end he couldn't even remember that he had filed a criminal complaint through his lawyer because of the missing money.
The couple lent the defendant 15,000 euros - and never got it back
The Munich resident is said to have cheated a couple from Bad Wiessee out of a nice sum.
After the couple met him in a circle of acquaintances, they became friends.
He posed to them as the head of a large construction company, said the 50-year-old wife.
He made a very good impression with his charming manner.
Then one day he told about private financial problems and asked her to lend him 15,000 euros.
She did not see any reason to be suspicious.
Even working in the real estate industry, she knows from her own experience that there are good times and then bad times.
But the borrowed money never came back.
The defendant did not comment, the trial is ongoing.
Stefan Gernböck
