English Translation

a/ 2 Reasons : I. Past life and living conditions of the defendants_. 1./ The defendant B r a d a 8 comes from a Beanten- familie - his father was a post-inspector - and grew up in his parents' home, he attended 5 classes elementary school, 3 classes Bürgerschule and 2 classes commercial school. Afterwards he entered the service of a construction firm as a law firm intern. In the year l9l5 he found employment with the postal administration and was therefore indispensible in the most recent world wars. After he had been promoted to post-revidend in the meantime, he was elected as a substitute in the year l933 to the board of the Prague Post Office / PEs /, In this opinion he had up to his appointment on l2.l2.lg4l as managing director of the PES in the main advisory functions in commercial affairs of the PEs, since Frih- year l940 he was at the same time as an eclectic trust of the PES financial and commercial advisor of the company. Postex GmbH, in which he was admitted to the Board of Management on 1 July 19942. As chairman of the board of directors of the PEs, he was still touched as a post-beanter. His beant's salary last amounted to 2400 K. In addition, he received an honorary title in d cd C replaced by the PES. He is married and has a child aged 21 years old. He still owes about 30,000 K from loans to the Postalia advance grant fund. He has a preliminary sentence, 2./ The defendant S t t t a b c h e n also comes from a family of civil servants. His father was a postal officer, after attending the Volks- und Bürgerschule the defendant completed a secondary school to the Matura and then studied for 4 years at the technical college in Prague. In the first world war he was called to the military from November 194 to July 196. He was dismissed as corporal of a heart condition. As an agent of the PES he has been a member of the supervisory board since the foundation of the company Postex. He had been responsible for the 18630