Former policeman gambled away money from fines in casino

As the group leader of the riot police, an officer received several thousand francs for fines. Instead of forwarding the money regularly, he used it for private personal use, especially for gambling in the casino. Now the former policemen is in court in Switzerland, among others, for qualified misappropriation.

Recently the 61-year old former policeman had to answer for his actions in front of the district court Uri. He was accused of taking cash money for 55 misdemeanour cases and not forwarding the money to the organisation. In court, the former official admitted his actions - and came out with a comparatively mild penalty.

Gave out 55 misdemeanour fines - and used the money for personal use

As the Luzerner Zeitung reported a few years ago, the accused had worked as the group leader of the riot- and traffic police Uri. In all the former policeman did not forward the income from 55 tickets regularly to the relevant authorities. Instead he used the fine money he collected for private use. He mainly gambled away the ticket fine money at the casino. In all this involved around 9000 Francs, which currently comes up to the sum of 8,100 Euro.

Afterwards the 61-year old man was requested several times to transfer the money to the relative organisation. However, initially he did not comply with the requests. Eventually the former policeman could transfer the money - too late. The criminal proceedings because of qualified misappropriation could not be prevented.

Further charge: several misappropriations

The 61-year old accused did not really take the law-abiding part seriously. In any case, the former official was accused with several misappropriations, since in his role as cashier of the association of the canton Police he took cash money without permission. He used the fraudulent money also for gambling. During the proceedings, the State attorney had presented a register, which proofs that he had channeled more than 100,000 Francs during a ten year time period, from 2008 to 2018.

However, according to the bill of indictment, the former policeman had always had the intention to pay the money afterwards. Save for a differential amount of 25,000 Franks he managed to do this. After successful ad building, he had also paid this amount, so that there were no damages.

Accused also falsified 100 Bank statements

Further to this, the prosecution accused him of modifying more than 100 bank statements of the Association account, between 2007 and 2017. He actually modified the account statements, and changed among other things the annual figures and increased the interest on deposits. He was therefore accused of repeatedly falsifying documents. Overall the 61- year old was being accused in court of crimes, ranging from qualified misappropriation to repeatedly falsifying documents. 

Accused admits - imprisonment of 14 months

The accused confessed in front of the prosecution during the proceedings in the District Court Uri. Since he accepted the related requests, the proceedings could be carried out in a significantly short time. In court he was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. Besides, he has to pay for the charges and costs of the proceedings, which amount to 12,000 Francs.

Conclusion

Only a few weeks ago, we reported how a gambling addicted banker defrauded customers 500,000 Euro. Even in the current case, it was apparently the problematic gambling behaviour which led the former policeman to commit several crimes at the same time. Finally the 61-year old had used the majority of the “crime loot” to gamble in the casino. Thanks to his confession, the former policeman got away with a comparatively mild 14-month imprisonment.

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