Contractor from Chemnitz sentenced to eleven months in prison for undeclared work

Contractor from Chemnitz sentenced to eleven months in prison for undeclared work

A building contractor from Chemnitz must be responsible for its brazen machinations in October 2024. He was sentenced to an eleven months' imprisonment, but was suspended for probation. The 40-year-old had employed several workers "black" between 2021 and 2023 without properly registering for social security and paying the necessary contributions. This resulted in enormous damage of over 340,000 euros for social security institutions.

The German legal system has thus set a sign: the entrepreneur is now under probation for two years. This punishment reveals the dark sides of the construction industry, in which a black money cycle is often created by using cover bills. The workers concerned are not only financially disadvantaged, but also insufficiently secured with social security.