[ad_1]
The Bucharest court on Tuesday ordered the acquittal of Gregor Aufhauser, CEO of Grand SRL Hotel Company (SCHG), which manages the Marriott hotel, and the company’s chief financial officer, Kathrin Brettschneider, both Austrian citizens, for committing the crime. of continuous tax evasion. , announces agerpres.ro.
The judges also acquitted the Societatea Companiilor Hoteliere Grand SRL, referred to the courts by the prosecutors for tax evasion, and the civil action brought by the National Tax Administration Agency was rejected as unfounded.
The decision is not final and can be appealed by the Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Bucharest Court of Appeal.
The court’s decision comes after four years of trial, and prosecutors sent the case to the Bucharest Court in October 2016.
Gregor Aufhauser and Kathrin Brettschneider are accused by prosecutors of 4 million lei tax evasion, recording an unrealistic transaction in accounting documents and annual financial statements.
Winter is coming – what will the weather be like for the next four weeks?
“Between 2008 and 2015, the defendants of Societatea Companiilor Hoteliere Grand SRL, Gregor Aufhauser – as chairman of the board and Kathrin Brettschneider – as a member of the board of directors and chief financial officer recorded in accounting documents and annual financial statements, repeatedly, an unrealistic operation, namely that the loan agreement, called “ repayable contribution agreement ”, concluded on January 18, 1995 with ILBAU GmbH Vienna, for the amount of 17,792,665 euros, illegally recording it in the account 1624 – External bank loans guaranteed by the state, although, according to the Accounting Regulations approved by order of the minister, it should have been registered in account 1661 – Debts with affiliated entities, “said the prosecutors.
According to the researchers, taking advantage of this “unreal” operation, they were recorded in the accounting and deducted, when calculating the tax profit, interest expenses in the amount of 30,422,698.78 lei and losses due to exchange differences in the amount of 21,825,116.59 lei, which caused a decrease in tax profit with a total amount of 30,228,134 lei and income tax owed to the state budget with a total amount of 4,836,501 lei.
The Prosecutor’s Office announced that the damage caused to the state budget, in the amount of 4,836,501 lei, was fully recovered during the criminal investigation.
[ad_2]
