Serious fraud and false testimony – for these offenses, a lowlander now has to pay a whopping 3,000 euros in fines. He had ordered various products online, but did not want to pay the bill.
Leg amputated and in a wheelchair, early retiree, care level six and dependent on care. Seen in this way, fate played badly on the 60-year-old. The fact that the man now has to answer in court is entirely his fault. The disability pensioner from the Dornbirn area is accused of serious fraud and false testimony. According to the public prosecutor, he had ordered goods online several times, then received them from the courier and later complained to the post office and retailers that he had not received the orders at all. Specifically, there are two scams that the Unterlander is accused of. So he had ordered a laptop and later a coffee machine on the Internet with a total value of more than five thousand euros. But he didn’t want to pay for it. Because when the goods arrived, he took them out of the box and simply claimed that the boxes had been torn open and filled with stones. He repeated this during his police interrogation. The parcel driver contradicts this. And so the alleged victim finally becomes a suspect. Serious fraud and false testimony In the trial at the LG Feldkirch, when judge Lisa Pfeifer was asked about the allegations, the accused stated that he could no longer remember the crimes due to meningitis. According to the public prosecutor, after there had always been suspicions against the accused, he decided not to obtain an expert opinion. Frau Rat found him guilty of serious fraud and false testimony and imposed a fine of 3,000 euros. Closing words of the now previously convicted: “Yes, I accept the verdict. I screwed up and now I just want to be left alone.”
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