Two men had been issuing inflated bills for years. They received several years' imprisonment.
Two former Lego employees have been sentenced to several years imprisonment in Denmark for allegedly cheating the toy manufacturer out of millions for years. The two were sentenced to two years and nine months and two and a half years in prison, respectively, in the Kolding court on Monday for serious and systematic fraud, the police in Southeast Jutland said.
2.3 million euros in damage
The two defendants are a 42-year-old Lego employee who held a leading position at the building block giant in Billund, and the one year younger owner of an electricity company. They had been accused of cheating Lego several times with inflated bills or bills for work that had not been carried out for a total of 17 million Danish kroner (2.3 million euros) and dividing the booty among themselves.
They are said to have systematically followed this practice from 2009 to 2016. The two had denied the allegations.
