Judgment of the Federal Supreme Court on failure to keep accounts, obtaining a false certification, and qualified breach of trust

Facts

The Federal Supreme Court dealt with an appeal against a judgment of the High Court of the Canton of Aargau. The appellant, [A.] , was found guilty by the High Court of multiple failures to keep accounts, multiple instances of obtaining a false certification, forgery of documents, false statements about commercial businesses, qualified breach of trust, and mismanagement.

The appellant requested that the judgment of the High Court be overturned and that he be acquitted of guilt and punishment. Alternatively, he requested that the case be remanded to the lower court for a new decision.

Considerations

The Federal Supreme Court largely dismissed the appeal. It found that the lower court had rightly convicted the appellant of multiple failures to keep accounts, as the appellant, as an officer of the affected companies, had not sufficiently supervised the accounting.

The convictions for multiple instances of obtaining a false certification, forgery of documents, and false statements about commercial businesses were also confirmed by the Federal Supreme Court. The lower court had established the…