Convicted ex-minister no longer pushes for a new trial

Created: 01/06/2022, 05:34 PM

Ingolf Deubel stands in the courtroom.

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The Rhineland-Palatinate ex-finance minister Ingolf Deubel (SPD) is no longer pushing for a new trial.

According to the Kaiserslautern Regional Court, the 71-year-old withdrew his application for retrial about a year ago on Thursday.

Kaiserslautern / Koblenz - The public prosecutor's office in Kaiserslautern had previously requested that Deubel's application be rejected in a comprehensive statement.

Neither the Kaiserslautern regional court nor his lawyer Rüdiger Weidhaas gave any information about the reasons for the ex-finance minister's withdrawal.

The Koblenz district court sentenced Deubel to two years and three months in prison at the beginning of 2020.

Soon he was put into open prison in Rohrbach prison near Wöllstein in the Rhine-Hesse region.

In 2009, the private financing of the Nürburgring expansion he had promoted failed spectacularly.

This cost around 330 million euros.

When no investor was found, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate had to step in.

Deubel stepped back.

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According to earlier statements by the Kaiserslautern public prosecutor's office, the prerequisites for a reopening of the trial would have been new facts or evidence "which, alone or in conjunction with the evidence already collected, are suitable to justify an acquittal or the application of a more lenient criminal law".

The legal hurdles are therefore high and retrial proceedings are rare.

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