Darmstadt: Logos of the lilies and the DFB used for wrong contract

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The Darmstadt District Court sentenced a player’s agent to a fine for forging documents. The 55-year-old Ukrainian wanted to employ a compatriot as a trainer and scout with the help of his contacts with the Darmstadt lilies.

Because of Forgery of documents and offenses under the Residence Act, a 55-year-old player’s agent was sentenced on Wednesday by the Darmstadt District Court to a fine of 60 daily rates of 30 euros each. Judge Mathias Siebertz saw it as proven that the Ukrainian had his contacts with the then Bundesliga club in spring 2017 SV Darmstadt 98 used to hire a fellow countryman with a fake contract as a scout in his own company.

After a required visa application in Kiev had already been rejected at the end of October 2016, the defendant asked the SV 98 team manager at the end of April 2017 to arrange an urgent appointment with the Darmstadt immigration authorities.

Darmstadt: The defendant does not want to have known about the false lily contract

Two and a half weeks ago, however, the defendant had protested in court that he had a forged employment contract with the logos of the Darmstadt lilies and des German Football Association (DFB) said they knew nothing and only acted as an interpreter.

Instead, the 55-year-old accused his compatriot of bringing the falsified contract to the authorities and handing it to the clerk in order to make it easier for him to obtain a residence permit. However, the court had looked in vain for the Ukrainian in recent months. An attentive clerk at the agency was puzzled when, in addition to the falsified contract, another employment contract with the defendant’s agency was presented.

Darmstadt: Prosecutor speaks of “high criminal energy”

At the end of the trial on Wednesday, public prosecutor Nicole Hilbrecht demanded that the 55-year-old be sentenced to a fine of 100 daily rates of 30 euros. The representative of the prosecution accused the defendant of having “led the idea” to establish his contacts with the Darmstadt lilies to use the forged contract to obtain a residence permit for his compatriot. He acted with a “high level of criminal energy”, according to Hilbrecht. Defense attorney Hartwig Grude spoke of “unfounded assumptions” by the public prosecutor and demanded acquittal for his client.

Judge Siebertz basically followed the arguments of the prosecutor. The defendant also had a “high self-interest” in employing the compatriot in his company after this project had failed a few months earlier.

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