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Ex-VW-person Executive Peter Hartz must be from mid-January in the corruption scandal at Volkswagen before trial. The District Court Brunswick, the indictment of the prosecutor. This is the main proceedings against Hartz formally opened.
Hanover - The first trial date for 17 January is planned. Hartz is due to embezzlement in 44 cases and favouring the works council accused. With the former works council chief Klaus Volkert, because of the VW affair in pre-trial detention is to be Hartz in twelve years secretly over 1.9 million euros as special bonuses in addition to his salary. Because of this very serious case of embezzlement Hartz threaten to ten years in prison
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ex-person Executive Committee Hartz: Sufficiently suspicious Witnesses or experts are negotiating for the first day not loaded, said a spokesman of the Land Court. The procedure will be on 25 January continue.
The 6thTrial large, the Wirtschaftsstrafkammer, held Hartz to be sufficiently suspicious, the indicted criminal offence. In 23 of the 44 embezzlement cases, Hartz findings to the prosecutor at the same time the works unrechtmßig favours. This is a violation of the Works Constitution Act, in Clause 119 favouring of works councils prohibits. Such a benefit may a fine or imprisonment of up to one year punished. At normal infidelity threaten up to five years in prison
Hartz is the first of a dozen defendants, against the indictment before the court. The VW affair was in June 2005 came to light. In the focus came because of the creation of camouflage companies and the payment of bribes to the former first person Executive Committee of the Volkswagen subsidiary Skoda, Helmuth Schuster, and later dismissed personnel manager Klaus-Joachim Gebauer. Later widened the affair desire to travel and Bordellkosten of works councils in VW costs. mik / Reuters / dpa / AP