He has not yet started incarceration. Alfons Schuhbeck explained “Bild”: “I can’t play the big bloke there.”
Star chef Alfons Schuhbeck (74) has been sentenced to prison for tax evasion. Whether he could imagine working in the kitchen in the prison or contributing his knowledge of healthy nutrition as a consultant: “I can’t play the big bloke there. I don’t know my way around there either, I only get the experience then. You have to accept that. Let’s see.”
Schuhbeck continues to work meanwhile, as he explained to the newspaper: “Giving up is not an option. Only packages and letters are given up. Otherwise, the wobbling will continue. I can’t sit down and twiddle my thumbs,” says the cook: “I’ve worked all my life , I’m hardworking. Everyone needs a purpose in life.”
Federal Court of Justice confirmed prison sentence for Alfons Schuhbeck
In June it became known that Schuhbeck’s conviction for tax evasion was “predominantly final” after a decision by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). The district court in Munich I only had to renegotiate the seizure of Schuhbeck’s assets, as the BGH in Karlsruhe announced. Accordingly, the regional court’s judgment was incomplete “because not all the information for calculating the income tax debts of the accused had been determined”.
The revision of the prominent TV chef was largely unsuccessful. The BGH found no errors of law in the guilty verdict and sentencing. The decision of the Federal Court of Justice does not change anything about the imprisonment of three years and two months that the district court of Munich I sentenced Schuhbeck to in October 2022.
The Federal Court of Justice saw it as proven that Schuhbeck “daily withdrew cash from the tills of two restaurants, including the Südtiroler Stuben, totaling more than 4.2 million euros between 2009 and 2015”. Among other things, he used a computer program written by his employee to manipulate the sales. Schuhbeck “evaded a total of more than 1.2 million euros in income tax,” as the BGH further announced.
Source: Stern
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