Charged with COVID-19 credit, court in Switzerland sentences Kosovo 26 months in prison

The criminal court has convicted him Wednesday of fraud, writes Sda.ch.

The person in question had handed in the form for emergency help of the coronary to the commercial bank of his construction company in March 2020.

According to his statement, he was afraid of blocking construction as a result of the pandemic at this time. The request for credit, he said, was a precaution.

The public prosecutor, however, has seen him prove that he applied for the money was deliberately cheating and that he had also misused that money. The company had not been in financial trouble due to pandemic, the prosecutor has added.

After he had received the money, he had given his father a 15,000 - franc loan. In addition, the accused had made other purchases, which would not make anyone who has a license barrier or fears them, the prosecutor has said.

For this reason, he has sought a 20-month prison sentence for fraud and counterfeiting, as well as a five-year expulsion from the country for Kosovo with several criminal precedents.

Banting Task

The defender, on the other hand, has sought innocence for his client. He claimed the bank should have checked his client's information before transferring the money to him. Ksoovar, according to him, had assumed he had the right to take the loan because he was concerned about the company's financial situation.

However, the court has sentenced the 35-year-old man to two years and two months in prison for fraud, counterfeiting documents and multiple fraud business management. He must hold ten months of effective prison, while the rest are conditional on a trial period of four years.

In addition, he has been given the five-year ban on the development of activities in the sector in which he worked. It also must pay 97,000 francs for the guarantee institute that it has secured the loan. Medical costs are also charged.

You've used a society emergency to enrich at its expense” has been addressed to the accused's judge. The court considers this punishable. The accused knew his company had not been significantly affected by the pandemic.

According to the judge, banks were known to pay the money in a packaged manner and without further control. He predicted this and speculated that it would not be further controlled and that it would simply pay them”, the judge further indicated.

The court in this verdict has refrained from expulsioning Kosovo, as the prosecutor had requested. With the ban on professional practice, we have a softer instrument in hand to prevent the public from taking risks. He must resign as manager of his new construction company.

The judgment is a sign that Swiss laws must be respected. The decision is not yet legally almighty.

About 70 similar cases are pending only in Lucerni canton. But this judgment is the first of its kind in German Switzerland.