Tannenberger was sentenced to three years in prison, with two of them suspended.[3] The IHF's resulting insolvency had driven it to file for bankruptcy in Austria, its country of registration, and to be dissolved on 27 November 2007.[4] The IHR accountant was sentenced 3 years for embezzling $1.8 million from the Helsinki Federation for Human Rights to support his mistress He channeled money for financing human rights projects to his bank account, and used organization's ATM card for personal purposes which went unnoticed for six years.[5]