BERLIN, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- A former top lawyer of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Germany was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for aiding and abetting serious tax evasion in the "cum-ex" scandal, the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court ruled on Tuesday.
The man, whose sentence can still be appealed, had advised Maple Bank on cum-ex deals, a business model allowing wide-scale tax rebates on sums that were never paid. It was unclear for a long time whether such deals were illegal.
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