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Detmold (dpa / lnw) - In a process going back around ten years with bogus bills at the handball Bundesliga club TBV Lemgo, there was an acquittal.
Between 2010 and 2011, the professional club, which had got into a difficult financial situation due to the loss of its main sponsor, paid around 175,000 euros as “air deals” for a nonexistent telephone system and other unknown, alleged services.
On Wednesday the Detmold regional court acquitted a 61-year-old man from Bremen of having been the author of this fraud.
He was charged with inciting the then managing director of the association to pay the bills and thus to be unfaithful.
For this reason, he had already accepted a penalty order for 14,400 euros in 2015.
Both an entrepreneur from Lüneburg, who has already been convicted of similar transactions, and the ex-managing director, as witnesses in the process, could not make any illuminating statements about the actions of the accused.
The evidence for a conviction was therefore insufficient for the Economic Criminal Chamber.