4.4.Uit de door [eiser] overgelegde stukken uit de Amerikaanse strafzaak blijkt naar het oordeel van het Gerecht afdoende dat de veroordeling onder (1) "Corruptly Endeavoring to Obstruct the IRS", mede ziet op de valse voorstelling van zaken die [gedaagde] heeft gegeven over de eigendom van het gebouw in [plaatsnaam]. Door manipulatie van stukken heeft [gedaagde] het doen voorkomen of de eigendom bij [holding] berustte, terwijl hij feitelijk zelf eigenaar was.
Het in het geding gebrachte vonnis vermeldt dat [gedaagde] schuldig werd bevonden aan alle drie ten laste gelegde feiten.
Na zijn veroordeling door een Grand Jury volgde een half jaar later het strafadvies aan de rechter. In dit advies werd onder meer het volgende over [gedaagde] vermeld:
(a) “First, he produced fraudulent documentation to (…) to obstruct the IRS civil enforcement action. Next, he produced the same fraudulent documentation to special agents to obstruct the criminal investigation. Then, he produced the same fraudulent documentation to the Assistant United States Attorney (via his lawyer) to obstruct the grand jury investigation. The defendant manipulated others as he pursued his obstructive behavior. (…) [eiser], whose company name [gedaagde] stole to use in the fraudulent document. (…)
(b) On cross examination, the defendant was asked about the testimony of a number of government witnesses, and he testified, under oath, that they committed perjury. He accused multiple witnesses of lying under oath of essentially coming together in a grand conspiracy to railroad him. But of course, that was not true as the jury credited the witnesses and not the defendant. This defendants blatant disrespect for his oath, the truth, the jury, and this Court cannot go unanswered. A sentence at the top of his Guidelines range is necessary and appropriate.
(c) False Documents Given to IRS
The defendant also had two commercial properties in Virginia which could have been
used to pay his tax debt. Knowing that IRS was attempting to collect back taxes from him, the defendant instead decided to transfer the properties out of his name in order to prevent the IRS from seizing the assets. The properties were located at (…)in [plaatsnaam]. These were valuable properties. (…) To conceal that real estate deal, the defendant created fake
documents purporting to document a loan he owed to a [holding] located in
Miami, Florida. (…) The defendant concealed the substantial proceeds he earned from that sale when he wired the money offshore to [holding] in St. Maarten. The loan was entirely fabricated, as was the paperwork [gedaagde] supplied to the IRS. See testimony of [werknemer], [eiser], [naam 1], and [naam 2]. [gedaagde] created these false documents with substantial deliberation and effort. In order to make these documents look authentic and convincing, the defendant used templates provided by his business attorney.
(…) Although the defendant did not sell (…), it was a valuable asset he owned, and
so to obstruct the IRS from issuing a lien against that property, the defendant fabricated
documents to make it look like he sold it. (…) Again, the defendant passed off these bogus documents to IRS criminal investigators in an effort to obstruct the IRS and evade
the payment of his taxes. (…) and see testimony of [werknemer], [eiser], [naam 1] and [naam 2].”
Deze strafrechtelijke Amerikaanse stukken vormen naar het oordeel van het Gerecht afdoende bewijs van de manipulatie door [gedaagde] met de naam van [bedrijfsnaam].