Court: Another trial in opposition to Regensburg’s ex-mayor Wolbergs | EUROtoday

As of at the moment, proceedings earlier than the Munich I Regional Court are about occasion donations for the 2014 native elections. Twelve years and two native elections have handed since then. The course of is a partial renegotiation of the ten-month occasion donations course of earlier than the regional courtroom Regensburg in 2018/19 in opposition to the previous Mayor of Regensburg Joachim Wolbergs.

The now 55-year-old was convicted of two circumstances of taking benefit, however remained unpunished. He was acquitted of additional allegations. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) partially overturned this judgment in November 2021, criticized it as being too lenient and referred it to a business prison division of the Munich I Regional Court for a brand new trial.

The trial was postponed a number of occasions. 13 days of negotiations at the moment are scheduled. The verdict might be pronounced in May.

At a latest info occasion, Wolbergs recapitulated his authorized case from his personal perspective and mentioned: “I am fighting for myself because I am convinced that justice has not been done to me.” The native politician was as soon as a member of the SPD and now sits on the Regensburg metropolis council for the Brücke voter group, which he co-founded.

Complex authorized case

After the 2018/19 trial, there was one other trial in 2020 earlier than the Regensburg regional courtroom within the context of the 2014 native election marketing campaign. This ended with a conviction for a case of bribery and a one-year suspended sentence – confirmed in its entirety by the BGH in November 2021.

Wolbergs then filed a constitutional criticism at the start of 2022. This was rejected in August 2024 on the grounds that the proceedings earlier than the Munich I Regional Court had been nonetheless pending. This in flip was not scheduled on the grounds {that a} determination had not but been made on the constitutional criticism.

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