He wanted to get compensatory bonuses with the scam. Men from Prague face eight years in prison
Klein, who already has eleven criminal records and is currently the managing director of a private company, wrote five applications for a compensatory bonus, which he sent by e-mail to the tax office’s office, last April, according to the indictment. Four to Klatovy, one to Trutnov.
He sent applications on behalf of Zuzana J. and Milan S., but without them. He asked to send the money either to the account to which he had the disposition authority, or to the account that belonged to his 28-year-younger girlfriend Klára P., but he succeeded only once, when the tax office paid him 25,000 crowns. Additional bonuses in the total amount of 103 thousand crowns were no longer sent to his account.
The man denies guilt
Klein, who is now staying in the Klatovy region, denied the guilt in court. “What is in the indictment is not true,” he said. He added that his ex-wife Aisha Elizabeth was doing business with Zuzana J. and he was helping them, among other things, to start an e-shop. He wrote bonus requests for his ex-wife, whom he represented, at her request.
Because he had foreclosure on his account, he asked Zuzana J. to open an account for him and hand him a credit card, which she did. The money also came there and his wife picked it up. That was in April. According to him, it has nothing to do with other applications written during May.
His girlfriend and ex-wife also testified in court, but the latter in particular sometimes contradicted each other.
The trial will continue in December by questioning other witnesses. It bothers the men that the fraud was to be committed in an emergency.