Tag: Wolfgang Ullrich

Former Animal Welfare Charity Head Sentenced to 12 Years for Embezzling

Back in 2001, Wolfgang Ullrich was arrested and charged with embezzling more than $45 million in donations from the German and European Animal Relief Organization. This month Ullrich was sentenced by a German court to 12 years in jail.

Ullrich, 58, was convicted of 137 separate counts of fraud during his term as head of the animal group from 1994-1999. Ullrich had set up a front company in Switzerland through which he funneled the donations.

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Wildlife boss jailed for duping animal lovers. ABC News, April 3, 2003.

German Animal Rights Leader on Trial for Fraud

At the beginning of April the former head of a German animal rights foundation, the German and European Animal Relief Organization, was arrested and charged with embezzling more than $45 million in donations which they allegedly laundered through a series of dummy corporations. The alleged fraud took place from 1994-1999.

Wolfgang Ullrich, 57, fled to Thailand when authorities were on his trail, and was extradited back to Germany in February of this year. He had been imprisoned in Thailand for refusing to pay a $1.8 million fine for illegally importing a yacht into that country.

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Former animal rights foundation head goes on trial for alleged fraud. Associated Press, April 2, 2001.