The celebrity chef has now expanded his confession from Wednesday.
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Munich, Dusseldorf It is part two of his confession: Before the Munich I District Court, the star chef Alfons Schuhbeck, who had fallen deeply, now also admitted tax evasion in his “Südtiroler Stuben” restaurant on Friday. He had caused the EDP to be manipulated afterwards, said Schuhbeck.
There were so many bills and loans that had to be serviced, “that I diverted funds for a pool of craftsmen,” Schuhbeck justified the manipulations. It was only on Wednesday that the 73-year-old admitted that he had used a computer program to smuggle income past the tax office in his “Orlando” restaurant for years.
The Munich public prosecutor accuses Schuhbeck of having evaded taxes totaling more than 2.3 million euros between 2009 and 2016. “I did a few things wrong,” Schuhbeck said on Wednesday. “I fooled myself, my friends and acquaintances and also my defense lawyers until the end because I didn’t want to admit that I had failed entrepreneurially,” he reported on the tax evasion in the “Orlando”.
With a view to the “Südtiroler Stuben” he was still ignorant on Wednesday. Although he could not rule out that sales were not given there either. He had noticed irregularities in the income, which is why he had an examination carried out. Schuhbeck reported that he himself was not even able to operate the cash register and could not explain how money had disappeared there.
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The presiding judge Andrea Wagner was correspondingly surprised on Friday. She asked why Schuhbeck hadn’t admitted the manipulations in the “Südtiroler Stuben” on Wednesday. In view of the impending prison sentence, he was under too much pressure, explained Schuhbeck.
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After Schuhbeck’s partial confession, the court had already made it clear that when taking evidence, Schuhbeck’s entire statement had to be checked again and “whether the information was correct,” said a spokesman.
For Schuhbeck, a possible prison sentence is now becoming more and more likely. According to a ruling by the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe in 2012, tax evasion of a sum of one million euros usually carries a prison sentence without probation.
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