The case concerned the period 2011-13, when the defendant, now retired, served as head of the Revenue Department of the specific Tax Office.
A former tax official was sentenced to a redeemable prison sentence of 6 years, as she was found guilty of embezzling 320,000 euros from the funds of the Kilkis Secondary School.
The case concerned the period 2011-13, when the defendant, now retired, served as head of the Revenue Department of the specific Tax Office.
The Five-Member Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki found her guilty – in the second degree – of embezzlement and forgery, recognizing the mitigating factors of a previous honest life and sincere remorse.
The judges decided to convert the penalty to 3 euros per day.
At first instance, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison (he was also facing the felony of infidelity, but that was now rejected by embezzlement, based on case law accepted by the Court). She was then released, on condition, in view of the trial at the Court of Appeal.
According to the case file, the defendant falsified – unbeknownst to her subordinates – the type A collection duplicates, at the same time misleading the taxpayers who paid, as they owed, the sums of money. However, as the taxpayers normally got their hands on the relevant legal document – always according to the indictment – she herself withheld the sums of money, not entering them into the public administration, while displaying the relevant duplicate on the list of invalids.
“It was arbitrarily canceling and “pruning” the unauthorized duplicates in the process of closing the TAXISNET system so that the lack of the relevant sums of money and therefore the ongoing embezzlement would not be perceived,” is described in the will, with which he was referred to trial.
In her apology, she accepted a small part of the embezzlement, attributing her involvement to the scheming of her colleagues, while through her lawyer she stated that she took steps to return the money that appeared to be the product of embezzlement.
Earlier, her former colleague, who was examined as a prosecution witness, reported that the accused “threatened and ridiculed her colleagues in order to do her job, which was embezzlement”. “The Revenue Department was not functioning as it should. We had collegial oppression, she was trying to manipulate colleagues to achieve her goal,” he said in his testimony.
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