It involves delaying insolvency in nine cases, fraud in four cases, attempted fraud in five cases, subsidy fraud in 19 cases and withholding and embezzlement of wages in 479 cases, as the authority announced on Wednesday. “Mr. Schuhbeck will defend himself against the accusations. He has not yet commented on the matter,” said his lawyers Norbert Scharf and Joachim Eckert. “Happy determinations or profiling are prohibited given the status and scope of the proceedings.”
Corona aid received wrongly
According to the public prosecutor’s office, Schuhbeck is said to have wrongly applied for Corona emergency aid and bridging aid, among other things. “He knowingly provided false information in order to obtain large-scale, unjustified subsidies for the companies he represented and to create a source of income of some importance and duration,” the public prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Schuhbeck is also said to have failed to file the required insolvency applications for nine of his companies, or not filed them in a timely manner, even though the company in question was already insolvent.
The court decides whether to admit the charges
“With the indictment being filed, the proceedings are now in the interim proceedings. Control over this lies with the court, which has to decide whether to admit the indictment,” the lawyers said in their statement. “The questions raised by the indictment concern the economic side of Mr. Schuhbeck’s recent life history, which needs to be clarified. Statements on the indictment allegations will be made to the court, not in or about the public.”
Last year, Schuhbeck began his prison sentence for tax evasion. The Munich I Regional Court sentenced him to three years and two months in prison. It was convinced that he had evaded 2.3 million euros in taxes and reached into the cash registers of two of his restaurants more than 1,000 times to make money disappear. He admitted to using a computer program that an employee had created on his behalf.
Moved to a branch of the prison
Schuhbeck was initially held in the Landsberg am Lech correctional facility and is now in a branch of the correctional facility in the Rothenfeld district of Andechs. The fact that he was transferred there is the last officially confirmed news about his situation after entering prison.
Schuhbeck was an integral part of the Munich Bussi-Bussi society for years. He entertained celebrities and became one himself. He cooked for the Queen, the Beatles, Charlie Chaplin, and again and again for FC Bayern Munich and became one of the most famous chefs and restaurateurs in the republic.
Picture gallery: Alfons Schuhbeck: Scenes from a (former) life
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Deep fall of a star chef
His name was a brand for years. Schuhbeck built up a network of companies with three restaurants, a catering service, an ice cream parlor and spice shops. He worked 19 hours a day, he said on his 70th birthday five years ago. But Schuhbeck fell deeply. He filed for bankruptcy for his Munich restaurants, and last year bankruptcy proceedings were opened against him personally.
“I did a lot of things wrong,” Schuhbeck said in court in 2022, before he was able to bring himself to make a more extensive confession. “I deceived myself, my friends and acquaintances and also my defense attorneys until the end because I didn’t want to admit that I had failed as a businessman.” He also said at trial: “If I could undo it, I would do it in a heartbeat.” And: “I’m standing in front of the rubble of my life’s work.”
