Conviction of Zübeyde Feldmann final

2023-11-29 20:13:19

The conviction of Zübeyde Feldmann in the Workers’ Welfare (AWO) scandal for aiding and abetting breach of trust to a fine of 110 daily rates of 30 euros each is legally binding. As a spokesman for the Frankfurt Regional Court confirmed to the FAZ, both the defendant and the public prosecutor have withdrawn their appeal against the district court’s verdict. This also includes the confiscation of 10,800 euros, which the defendant wrongly collected.

According to the verdict, the former wife of the voted-out Frankfurt mayor Peter Feldmann had a fictitious mini-job as a carer for the support association of the Robert-Krekel-Haus care center run by AWO Wiesbaden between November 2014 and April 2017. Although she earned a total of 13,500 euros over the two and a half years, she never did any work, as the district court found. Feldmann did not appear in the trial, but her defense lawyers had requested an acquittal.

Acted consciously from the start

The lawyers said that it was not possible to establish in the evidence that their client signed the contract with the intention not to perform any work. At that time she was 28 years old and a student and was hoping for opportunities from working for the AWO. That is why she did not question the various contracts she had with the welfare association. On the other hand, the criminal judge shared the public prosecutor’s opinion that Feldmann had acted consciously from the start. It is one thing not to negotiate, but it is another thing not to work for a portion of the salary. According to witness statements, there were never concrete plans to develop the “culturally sensitive care” for which Feldmann’s mini-job was supposedly set up.

Hannelore Richter, the former managing director of the AWO district association in Wiesbaden, who, together with her husband and former Frankfurt district association managing director Jürgen Richter, is at the center of the scandal and had concluded the mini-job contract with the defendant, said this in the trial against Peter Feldmann. The fact that Zübeyde Feldmann never did any work and that nothing came of the project “slipped through to her”. However, the judge refused to testify in the district court. That’s why the criminal judge heard the presiding judge who conducted the trial against Peter Feldmann.

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In her ruling, the judge also referred to a message from the defendant to Hannelore Richter in which she asked whether 450 euros could be transferred promptly. She currently has a lot of expenses. This also suggests that Feldmann acted consciously from the start.

The defendant had originally received a penalty order for 120 daily rates of 50 euros each. She objected to this, which is why the main hearing took place in court.