Overview

• Ochsenknecht was handed over by German authorities at the Kiefersfelden border on July 16 and transported to Innsbruck for pretrial proceedings.
• He is accused of defrauding a Tyrolean hotel by not paying a nearly €14,000 bill from a birthday stay in late 2021.
• His former partner, Yeliz Koc, has since cleared the outstanding invoice but the Austrian fraud investigation remains active.
• His extradition followed a European Arrest Warrant confirmed by the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court and an eight-day transport through jails in Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Hessen and Munich-Stadelheim.
• The 33-year-old actor apologized on Instagram for underestimating the situation and faces up to three years in prison if convicted.