A former head of the Municipality of entreprenørafdeling acknowledges that he bought clothes for themselves in the municipality’s expense.
It says the 58-year-old man, who in the Court in Aarhus, accused of having misused municipal funds for private purposes and for having received bribes.
He acknowledges that the purchase of ten T-shirt, ten pairs of socks and six pairs of underwear for a total value of 1140 dollars was for private use.
– It I should not have done, says the the defendants.
The same applies to a pair of pants and belt to 1160 dollars.
the Man, who is tanned and has a characteristic blue eyeglass frames, similar alacrity on the prosecutor’s questions.
Although he acknowledges to have bought clothes for private use on the municipality’s expense, so he refuses is guilty of the most serious part of the accusation.
It is about to receive a bribe.
according to the indictments be made by a badmintonklub, where the accused sat in the board of directors, through a number of years received sponsorship for 217.500 euros.
egeblad on the sponsorships were provided by a company, which provided construction machinery to the department, that the accused was a commander.
The defendants do not contest that egeblad on the sponsorships were given. But he refuses to have received bribes.
Director of the company, who gave egeblad on the sponsorships to badmintonklubben, refuses also guilty of having given bribes.
The former municipal chief is also accused of having received bribes in the form of a golf from a different supplier to the municipality.
Forvaltningschefen was expelled from the Aarhus Municipality and reported to the police in 2016.
The local newspaper, Aarhus Stiftstidende, came on the track of the case and was set to Cavlingprisen – a journalistic award for its coverage of the case.
the Court has set aside three days in court for the hearing of the matter.
