Star chef Alfons Schuhbeck has extended his confession in the trial of tax evasion and also admitted computer manipulation in his restaurant “Südtiroler Stuben”. Missing invoice numbers in the cash register system are “also due to computer manipulations, for which I am ultimately responsible,” said the restaurateur on Friday before the Munich I Regional Court. “There is no third party responsible for this.”
Schuhbeck had already made an extensive confession on Wednesday, but mainly related to his other restaurant “Orlando”. At the time, he only assumed general responsibility for the “Südtiroler Stuben” and stated that he could not remember exactly how the manipulations had taken place.
The public prosecutor accuses the 73-year-old of using a computer program to smuggle revenue past the tax office. In total, there are more than 2.3 million euros in taxes that Schuhbeck is said to have evaded between 2009 and 2016 in the “Orlando” and in the “Südtiroler Stuben”.