Key legal question
Whether the mismanagement conviction was based on adequate causal link to the company's overindebtedness
Extracted holding
Yes. By stopping proper bookkeeping and mixing company and private accounts, the appellant deprived himself of control tools needed to detect the financial situation and take timely measures to limit overindebtedness.
Extracted reasoning
Adequate causation is satisfied if the conduct contributed to causing or aggravating the result; it need not be the sole or direct cause. The company was still solvent at year-end 1999 and 2000 but later became heavily overindebted. The management faults were capable of aggravating that situation.