Prison sentence handed down

Photovoltaic pirate swindles around 175,000 euros

The man posed as a technician and cashed in big time (symbolic image).(Bild: Marina Lohrbach - stock.adobe.com)

Always the same scam: as a technician, he continued to rip off supposed customers - now he has been sentenced to prison! The sentence is final. 

A 25-year-old in the district of Tulln sensed a big business in renewable energy: according to the indictment, the Croatian posed as an "electrical and heating contractor" and promised large-scale services such as the "installation of air conditioning, photovoltaic and heat pump systems or underfloor heating", which he did not provide or only provided in part. He also ordered goods himself, such as batteries or storage units, without paying for them. He also did not pay any taxes to the tax office. In total, he scammed more than 175,000 euros from May to October of the previous year.

And not for the first time: in February last year, the young man was sentenced to three months' conditional imprisonment for embezzlement and serious fraud - even then he was posing as a heat pump and air conditioning technician.

The verdict is already final
The 25-year-old has now been sentenced to 21 months in prison for aggravated fraud at the St. Pölten Regional Court.