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Judgment in the CO2 process against Bank employees
A court found six former employees of the Deutsche Bank of tax fraud, guilty, go to prison. When trading air pollution rights, you have cheated the Treasury of millions.
The Frankfurt regional court has sentenced six former Employees of Deutsche Bank, because they have enabled millions of serious tax fraud. The Bank employees were in the court’s view of the essential part of a VAT carousel, with an international group of perpetrators in the years 2009 and 2010, around 850 million euros evaded. A seventh accused was threatened with a suspended sentence only.
The highest-ranking Bank employees, the Department head of Heinz H., received on Monday a prison sentence could not be suspended suspended. The 55-year-old former head of sales region middle must be said for three years in prison as the presiding judge Martin Bach on Monday. The Manager had certificates of all the moments of suspicion against fraudulent trader of CO2, with the Bank’s business had come, pushed aside.
Tax fraud in the millions
The Convicted person was not the “perpetrator, only mate”, and for control of damage by 145 million euros, said Bach. The Banker had coordinated the trading of CO2 emissions in Germany for the Bank and the only one of the seven accused on acquittal plea.
The other accused must pay in addition to their suspended sentences of between one and two years, fines of up to 200,000 Euro. It is previous business customers, managers, employees of the commercial and legal Department. Their offices were in April 2010 in the case of a large-scale RAID by addiction.
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The dealers had operated the business only to cheat the tax authorities in sales tax, the court said. With your help, 220 million euros have been attracted to.
The court fell short of the demands of the public Prosecutor’s office, which had called for the three defendants to between two and half and four years in prison. The Banker sat since mid-February on the dock. The German Bank had to be separated in 2015 by the staff, is already in retirement.
Fraud carousel
The VAT merry-go-round will be run from autumn 2009 to spring 2010. When trading with EU Rights to the emissions of climate-damaging carbon dioxide (CO2) have been purchased according to the findings of the investigator about German companies emission rights from abroad and within Switzerland between the company resold without paying sales tax. The last company in the chain sold the papers abroad again. The scammers were from the tax office VAT refund, which had never been paid.
With the so-called emission trading companies should be made to suck less CO2 from their factories into the air. These certificates are issued for specific quantities of CO2 emissions – is a company able to produce eco-friendly, it can sell the certificates. The customers are companies that emit more CO2.
Fraud investigations the tax had gone on for years. Deutsche Bank itself was not accused in the process. You had repeatedly declared that to cooperate with investigators. According to a statement, the German Bank, the Institute has set up such shops as soon as known, and the money to the Treasury to be paid back.
bea/iw (dpa, reuters)