His criminal record is getting longer: he was already a public prosecutor, doctor and pilot.

The judiciary already knew Marc G. under 38 different aliases.

Now she also knows him as a judge “Dr.

Robert Lindner “, because as the latest coup the notorious impostor had acquired a forged judge's ID with this name and his likeness, as he confessed on Tuesday.

That earned him four more months in prison without parole - for "providing false official ID". In the main, magistrate Britta Brost cleared the 33-year-old from the charge of serious fraud - which saved him a much higher penalty. A former victim of the notorious and multiple criminal record had all too willingly transferred a total of 121,000 euros to him again. In the desperate hope of finally getting back all the money he had already lost to the man.

After he had already become the man's victim several times, there could be no more talk of deception and error, said the judge.

He knew who he was getting into and still gave him the money.

"It may be a huge mess, what Mr. G. did here, but from a criminal law perspective it is not fraud," argued his defense lawyer Marc Françoise - with success.

Conscientious repeat offender

"That was very naive of me," said the financier as a witness and admitted that Marc G. had not even signed a written loan agreement.

Even more curious: Despite the pending fraud process for his 121,000 euros, the graduate engineer had only two weeks ago sent the man who was released from prison again 35,000 euros.

“No one can be that bad,” he said to himself again and again, reported the 57-year-old.

Now that he was in prison and got the "shot over the bow", he must have finally changed.

Of course, he needed start-up funding to gain a professional foothold, the convicted person had led him to believe.

“But then came the re-imprisonment.

Of course I couldn't pay him the installments, ”said Marc G .. In the meantime he lives on his mother's inheritance and is studying“ psychological counseling ”in distance learning.

Ten years ago, the conscientious high school student and temporary waiter was convicted for the first time. In 2013, the district court found him guilty of 52 cases of fraud and misuse of titles. Sometimes he appeared as "Count von Falkenstein", sometimes as a specialist "Dr. Dr. Petermeier ”. So he had ordered a Porsche for himself and his girlfriend at the time, even though he was almost penniless. A 6,000 euro pilot's uniform should hide that.

Experts had described him as above-average intelligent, but also selfish and “poor in conscience”. While still in custody, he had written letters to his previous victim and promised him the repayment of the money he had borrowed: "I'm sorry that I lied to and cheated on her over the years." At first, the victim is not impressed: "You ruined me and my family, ”replies the betrayed harshly. But this does not discourage Marc G. And he is right: soon all it takes is a WhatsApp, a quick phone call, and thousands more euros will flow in. “My own stupidity,” says the engineer.

The impostor used to not spare even his own mother, who has since died, when it came to shopping online under a false name.

For phone calls to sex hotlines, he gave the bank details of his lawyer at the time.

At the time, the prosecutor and court criticized the fact that he had ordered a prostitute by plane from Berlin in order to then cheat her about wages and expenses as particularly reprehensible.

The Düsseldorf district court sentenced the Ratinger to three years and nine months in prison in 2016.