Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – A 53-year-old managing director of a construction company has to go to prison for three years and three months for undeclared work and tax evasion in the amount of around 3.3 million euros. The sentence was confirmed on Friday by the Frankfurt Regional Court. The court also sentenced a 40-year-old to eleven months’ probation for being an accessory. While the prison sentence is already final, appeals against the suspended sentence are still possible.
The criminal proceedings were originally directed against four defendants who had been sentenced to suspended sentences or three years and three months in prison in October 2020. The 53-year-old and the woman therefore went to the Federal Court of Justice, which referred the matter back to the regional court for formal reasons.
Between 2014 and 2017, those responsible for the company based in the Main-Taunus district had damaged the tax authorities and social security agencies with undeclared work in more than 100 individual cases. They made confessions in court – the woman therefore played a subordinate role as an office worker.
