One of Germany's top lawyers has been caught trying to smuggle an expensive watch through customs.

The woman hasn't been named but is described as a well-known lawyer at a Federal Court. She had returned to Frankfurt from her holiday in Mauritius and went through the "nothing to declare" channel. A customs officer pulled her over, searched her bags and found a €2,000 watch.

    How it might have looked - a RollOnFriday simulation.

Presumably she now faces tax evasion charges, rather like her fellow German lawyer Ralph Wollberg when he was found with some undeclared and very expensive leather trousers at Dusseldorf airport. It's not known whether she followed Wollberg's galactically ill-considered example of reminding the customs officer of how very important he was.
 
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Anonymous 07 November 14 13:01

Her name has indeed not been disclosed completely. In the press, she has been referred to as "Brunhilde A." which, however, suffices to identify her as one of the few attorneys being allowed to represent parties in the Federal Court of Justice in civil matters (cf. the list under http://www.bundesgerichtshof.de/DE/BGH/Rechtsanwaelte/rechtsanwaelte_node.html).

Anonymous 07 November 14 19:29

May be it's just her watch. I keep my watch amongst my coins in my purse these days. (Mind you mine cost £12 at Argos about 15 years ago)

Roll On Friday 10 November 14 19:15

What kind of BS is this? Bringing in a 2k EUR watch or leather trousers constitutes tax avoidance? I thought the fall of the Berlin wall was supposed to be the end of this communist-lite bullshit?

Tax = extortion. The end.