Würzburg / Main-Tauber district.The trial against a police officer from a Würzburg district municipality before the district court of the cathedral city is entering its final phase. The 42-year-old, who worked in the Main-Tauber district before his leave of absence, is charged with fraud (eight cases) and illicit possession of narcotics (three cases) (we reported). The man has already admitted the latter, and the defendant denies the accusation of fraud – there is a sum of more than 80,000 euros in the room. The victim was a man from the same municipality who had since died of cancer and with whom the chief police officer has lived as a tenant for years. In the meantime, he had been granted a lifelong right of residence in the granny flat as well as a right of first refusal to the entire building.
On the third-last day of the hearing, the presiding judge Mark Kurzawski read various minutes, including numerous bank statements of the defendant, for more than two and a half hours. They testified to many financial transactions. It was noticeable that the landlord kept coming in larger sums, otherwise the account would have been constantly in the red. Judge Kurzawski also mentioned the extensive purchases and online orders that the 42-year-old is said to have made at the expense of the injured party. The observer was confronted with an abundance of numbers that made it difficult to record everything.
At the end of the third-to-last day of the hearing, the presiding judge let it be known that he was suspicious of parts of the flow of money and that it was not always clear to him where various financial resources had flowed. And he signaled that there might well be a surprise regarding the final phase, which made the defendant visibly wince.
© Fränkische Nachrichten, Friday, November 6th, 2020
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