Cologne - The former chairman of the CDU in Cologne, Richard Blomer, on Tuesday by the Cologne Regional Court sentenced to one year imprisonment on probation.
The former North Rhine-Westphalia State Parliament, was infidelity, fraud and tax evasion Beihilfezur guilty. Eight other defendants, the court sentenced to fines.
The judges saw it as evidence that in 1999 at the Cologne CDU illegal cash donations were recorded. In part, alleged Spendersteuerlich deductible receipts should have received, without it actually had paid something to the CDU.
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