Overview
- Presiding judge Julia Döllein ordered a provisional end to proceedings, requiring Frenck to pay €10,000 to the state treasury within six months or face the case being reopened.
- Frenck agreed to the terms and was advised to make monthly installments of at least €550 to avoid any lapse in the payment plan.
- Prosecutors had accused him of failing to remit VAT and trade tax tied to the 2017 Themar Rechtsrock concert, described as the largest postwar gathering of its kind with about 6,000 attendees.
- During the hearing, the court corrected the alleged unpaid tax from roughly €141,000 to about €88,000 after identifying a duplicated partial sum in the indictment.
- Frenck denies the allegations and his lawyer said the payment does not acknowledge guilt, while a co-defendant’s case was dropped due to an existing eight-year sentence and a separate tax dispute continues before the Thuringian fiscal court.