Crime – Hanover – revision process for the town hall affair: pleadings expected – panorama
Crime – Hanover:Revision process for the town hall affair: pleadings expected
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Hanover (dpa / lni) – The revision process for the town hall affair about illegal allowances against Hanover’s elegant Mayor Stefan Schostok is nearing its end. The pleadings are now planned for Friday (9:00 a.m.), and a judgment may already be pronounced, as the Hanover district court announced. Due to the illness of a member of the chamber, the continuation of the trial planned for the beginning of the past week was cancelled.
The town hall affair is about allowances of around 49,500 euros, which Schostok’s former office manager and chief lawyer, Frank Herbert, illegally received between April 2015 and May 2018. Since October 2017, Schostok is said to have been aware of the illegality of the allowance, but has not stopped it. In April 2020, the Hanover Regional Court acquitted Schost of the allegation of serious breach of trust, and his former office manager was fined for fraud by omission. In both cases, the public prosecutor’s office in Hanover appealed, and Herbert also appealed against the verdict.
Last year, however, the Federal Court of Justice overturned Schostok’s acquittal of the charge of breach of trust. Herbert’s conviction for fraud by omission was again overturned and referred back to the Hanover Regional Court for trial.
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