A former entrepreneur (53) from Emmen has to go to jail for nine months for forgery. This is equal to the requirement of the Public Prosecution Service (OM). The man now lives in a room in the west of the country and has fled from his creditors.
In 2019, the entrepreneur in solar panels told a financier that he had enough money. In doing so, he falsified documents, which were supposed to show that his company was in a rosy financial position. The financier bought up outstanding invoices, so that the entrepreneur did not have to wait for his money. To pry out that financing, the former Emmenaar forged a draft annual account, loan agreement and two bank statements.
With this he has been guilty of forgery on several occasions, the judge finds. Not long after the entrepreneur had sunnyly reflected his financial situation, his company was declared bankrupt. As a result, the financing party incurred a substantial loss, the judge said. The entrepreneur could have changed his mind several times and put the truth on the table, but did not.
The suspect persisted in misleading his financier and thus swam into a trap from which he could not get out, after which the financing company filed a report. The Emmer entrepreneur has already been convicted of falsifying sales tax. The duped company wanted seven tons back from the entrepreneur. This amount has since been awarded in a civil procedure.