Overview

• The regional court convicted the 41-year-old of embezzlement, fraud and document forgery, imposing a four-year, three-month prison term.
• Judges found she obtained an estate certificate using a forged handwritten testament to access more than €600,000 from a deceased former judge’s estate.
• The defendant had worked in the intensive care unit of the Zwickau hospital where the man died, and the court deemed her explanations not credible.
• The court cited ongoing financial problems as the motive, and reporting from the hearing noted “practice testaments” on her phone and an earlier typed will that failed.
• The verdict is not yet legally binding, prosecutors had sought five and a half years, the defense pleaded for acquittal and says it will appeal, no professional ban was imposed, and she remains free due to no flight risk.