Overview
- The 39-year-old defendant is accused of failing to declare revenues and profits from supplying 5 million FFP2 masks to the German state.
- The mask contract, awarded in April 2020, reportedly exceeded €22 million in value.
- Investigators say required trade and corporate tax returns were not filed with the Starnberg tax office and a VAT return was incomplete.
- Large transfers from the Swiss-registered company's assets to the defendant's private accounts were allegedly not reported as income.
- At his May 2025 arrest in the Allgäu, authorities say he possessed a revolver and two forged Slovenian IDs, and the court has signaled a possible multi-year prison term if convicted.