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Koblenz (dpa / lrs) - The former Rhineland-Palatinate finance minister Ingolf Deubel (SPD), who was convicted of infidelity and unofficial false testimony, is temporarily retaining his pension payments after a ruling by the Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Administrative Court.
The ex-politician had not lost his rights as a retirement officer through the conviction until the main proceedings were concluded, the OVG announced on Friday in Koblenz (file number: 2 B 11489 / 20.OVG).
In its reasoning, the court pointed out, among other things, that the law distinguishes between civil servants and criminal offenses committed in active employment or in retirement.
An aggregation of prison sentences is not permitted here.
Deubel was sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment for the unofficial false testimony committed after retirement - he was thus below the limit of two years for crimes during retirement.
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If you subtract these 16 months from the total sentence of 27 months, there were still 11 months left for the acts of infidelity before retirement - here the ex-politician would then stay below the limit that is one year for crimes in active employment.
In response to a complaint from the applicant, the Higher Administrative Court overturned a previously issued decision by the Administrative Court.
The Koblenz district court sentenced Deubel to a total imprisonment of two years and three months in connection with the financing of the Nürburgring expansion in 2020.
In 2009, the international private financing of the expansion failed in the Eifel.
This cost around 330 million euros.
When no investor was found, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate had to step in, Deubel resigned.
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