Embezzled over 100,000 euros?
Former managing director from Tegernsee in court - no trace of insight
Created: 04/15/2022, 12:00 p.m
Embezzled over 100,000 euros?
Former managing director from Tegernsee in court.
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A managing director is said to have embezzled more than 111.00 euros from the account of a Rottach company.
The criminal trial against the 60-year-old is proving difficult.
Rottach-Egern
– Did he embezzle company funds of more than 100,000 euros?
A 60-year-old from Germering, once one of the shareholders and managing directors of a company based in Rottach-Egern, is charged with this.
The taking of evidence in the criminal trial was also tedious on the fourth day of the hearing before the Miesbach lay judges.
As reported, the accused is said to have transferred a total of more than 111,000 euros to private or third-party accounts in 72 cases in 2017 and 2018 without the knowledge of the four other shareholders and managing directors of the company at the time.
An employee (59) of the Kreissparkasse Miesbach-Tegernsee testified as a witness that he "was actually only in contact with the accused", not with other managing directors of the company.
He confirmed that Germeringer had a credit card for his business account.
Money for suits and duty free: Managing director is said to have embezzled over 100,000 euros
Those credit card statements were dealt with in detail in the next three hours of process day four.
Judge Walter Leitner individually unraveled the transfers that the Miesbach criminal police found suspicious.
The accused sometimes had very detailed answers ready – always calm and never as if he had a bad conscience.
He could not explain why a payment of 76 euros was made to the ticketing service provider Eventim.
399 euros, which changed hands at a men's outfitter, were for a suit for his son, one of the company's co-partners.
"You can call this payment private or non-private," said Germeringer.
However, the court and the police also found several debits, referred to as “cash register” items, in Spanish.
However, his son is also responsible for this.
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Ominous "business trip" to Scotland: No corporate customers based in the country
Only once did the 60-year-old admit: "It was certainly private." In a duty-free shop at an airport in Scotland, he paid 225 euros with the company card.
He didn't want to overestimate this;
After all, he was on a business trip for the GmbH at the time.
Further payments for flights, hotels, fuel bills or rental cars in Scotland were of a business nature.
On one of the previous days of the trial, a co-partner as a witness had already cast doubt on this “business trip”: the trip was of a private nature and the company had never had business customers in Scotland.
In addition, Germeringer's wife was there.
The accused now conceded: "But only because the other managing directors were unable to attend and my wife and I speak very good English." He had met potential business partners at a university in the capital, Edinburgh.
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An officer (49) from the Miesbach detective also expressed doubts about the course of the trip to Scotland.
She reported "there is no evidence of customers in Scotland - this has been confirmed by three other directors of the company".
The accused is said to have told his associates that he had an office at that university in Edinburgh.
"We checked that, he is not known there," said the investigator.
She had also investigated the ominous item "cash register", for which several hundred euros had been debited from the business account within a very short time: "I don't think that a cash register was kept in the company," said the investigator.
"In any case, we didn't find a cash book."
When paying Eventim, she could not explain a business connection either.
One of the managers is said to have reported to the policewoman that the accused's daughter was supposed to have attended a musical.
An end to the trial against is not yet in sight.
The court has scheduled two more days of hearings.
Phillip Hamm
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