Cologne - The "Cologne Warhol, artist, Hans Juergen K. from Pulheim (65), must be for the production of 16.5 million U.S. dollars of counterfeit six years in prison.
On Thursday, the process in the District Court: The six-month pre-trial detention has left traces of Hans Juergen K., the face is pale. His assistant Manfred A. remains motionless, now and then massaged his forehead.
The presiding judge sentenced the Karlheinz Schuhmacher printmaker from Pulheim professionally because of counterfeiting of imprisonment of six years, Manfred A. to three years imprisonment for aiding and abetting
A "mild" sentence for the two older gentlemen, this is attributable to intelligibility. For this sum is the second largest amount of counterfeit money that has ever been found - worldwide! "Only in the U.S., there was a greater fund of 17 million euros," Chief Prosecutor Egbert Bülles.
The flowers were discovered as 2006 at a rubbish tip Niehler accidentally found a bulldozer dollar bills in several bags (they were poor quality blooms, the idea of donors of the coup, the Albanians p. dispose Wolters). Awesome! A letterhead of the artist even put in there - he was unmasked. Then K. descended on the covert investigator "Susan", which appeared as a Counterfeit inquirer.
The dollar forger about his motive: "I needed money." He also wanted to pay off his debts, which resulted after his first conviction as a counterfeiter (1999, he got probation). Furthermore, the Albanians repeatedly pushed him, Mr S to action.
He felt flattered, but also: "I was often told that I am the only one who can do it as well."
Also of interest
The Counterfeiters workshop Kölsch Warhol
