Image: HANS KLAUS TECHT (APA)
“Today I can confirm that since the end of last year, the Munich public prosecutor’s office has received reports of suspected money laundering, which, as usual, led to the registration of a case”said the authority to the APA. Last Sunday the… “Picture on Sunday” reported on the initiation of a money laundering investigation against Signa founder René Benko.
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There will be “Of course, the facts of the case are examined comprehensively from a legal perspective, including with regard to possible other crimes”, said the Munich public prosecutor’s office. The Signa founder was not named by the authority. However, a spokeswoman for the authority pointed out that there is no corporate criminal law in Germany – meaning that investigations cannot be carried out against companies, but only against individual people.
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The Lawyer explained to the “Picture on Sunday”, not knowing the procedure. According to the report, Benko’s companies are responsible for the acquisition and development of the project “Munich’s new center” have collected almost 1 billion euros from banks and investors.
120 million euros are said to come from Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), the newspaper writes, citing Signa files and land register extracts. The Benko companies are said to have provided inflated information about future rental income in order to obtain higher loans at better conditions. A large part of the money is said to have flowed abroad.
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