A former kommunaldirektør in Struer Municipality is at the Court in Holstebro sentenced to six months in jail for breach of mandate.
Four months of punishment is made conditional, while two months is unconditional.
in Addition to the previous kommunaldirektør, Mads Gammelmark, repay 123.098 crowns to Struer Municipality.
It is equivalent to the loss which the municipality has had as a result of the director’s abuse of its municipal debit card.
Mads Gammelmark has in court admitted that he has made 174 unjustified withdrawals on the card over a period of two and a half years.
In all cases, the annexes are missing.
This is because according to the 52-year-old man a large quantity of work.
– There is no special system in it, it’s just happened, says Mads Gammelmark in court.
He speaks unobtrusive and wiping several times on the eyes with a kleenex.
Mads Gammelmark, reports on a large quantity of work and a working week of 70 to 80 hours.
It did, that he, according to his own explanation did not have the time to keep track of the annexes and have them sent to the local authority’s bookkeeping.
– It is easy to be bagklog, but when I look back, there was just a huge mess and high speed every day.
– There have been very rooted in many things in my life, says the former kommunaldirektør.
the Money has been spent on dining, buying groceries, taxis, parking fees and museum visits.
Mads Gammelmark said in august last year his job in Struer Municipality.
It happened as a result of sickness, sounded it back then in a sparse press release from the municipality.
It has emerged in court that the people man has developed a depression and is in treatment with medication and sessions with an authorized psychologist.
The prosecutor argued in court for an unconditional prison sentence of six months.
the defence lawyer, Ole Møller Knudsen, spoke for a mere suspended sentence.
the Judge settled the matter, has selected a combination.
Mads Gammelmark has requested a reflection period in relation to whether he will appeal against the verdict.
The current kommunaldirektør in Struer Municipality, Jesper Thyrring Møller, says that the municipality has tightened the control of the municipal debit cards in the wake of the case.
Previously, we had a random inspection of the annex. Now we have a 100% control, he says to Ritzau.
Question: the Abuse was over two years. You ought to as a municipality not having discovered the matter earlier?
– We have confidence that you comply with the guidelines. Keeping the red light and running over for the green. Here was a person who is not kept for red.
It caught the we so luckily. But it had been happier for all parties, if we had done that in the past, he says.
