Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) - The former senior public prosecutor accused in Frankfurt rejected allegations of breach of trust on Friday. He had previously confessed to the criminal offenses of corruption and tax evasion. On Friday, the 55-year-old said in front of the Frankfurt Regional Court that it was not true that unnecessary reports had been commissioned. He also did not expand any expert opinion orders. The former senior public prosecutor set up an investigative agency against corruption in the healthcare system, but is said to have enriched himself by awarding expert reports for the judiciary.
The public prosecutor accuses Alexander B. of commercial corruption, serious breach of trust and tax evasion. In an extensive confession, he admitted that he had received bribes. He admitted that he shared first a third and later 60 percent of the profits of the company, which placed experts in the judiciary. The company invoiced the state of Hesse for orders worth millions. Bribery is about accepting advantages, infidelity is about misusing someone else's property.
According to the public prosecutor's office, auxiliary activities such as copying work are said to have been billed according to the hourly rate for experts. B. said that this applies in principle, but could also be necessary in the context of the activity. He trusted correct accounts. On the question of whether employees had also prepared indictments, B. referred to the fact that the central office was overburdened. Requests for more staff went unheeded.
Also in the dock is a shareholder of the company who is accused of commercial bribery and subsidy fraud. The entrepreneur shared B.'s profits at B.'s request. When asked, he called this a friendship service on Friday and spoke of "downstream gratitude". Without B. he would not have come across the business field with the reports.
