Austrian prosecutors accuse René Benko of embezzling tens of millions

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Vienna criminal prosecutors accused Rena Becko embrace a few million euros for the collapse of her real estate empire in 2021, possible by selling an Italian luxury estate possible by selling an Italian luxury estate by selling an Italian luxury estate by its Signa group. Possibly the authorities say that he was effectively controlled by him.

Becko, who was chaired by a group of Selfridge in London and some of Germany’s largest department stores in New York’s Cryisler building, was arrested in Austria after a criminal investigation by prosecutors in Vienna, Munich and Berlin last month.

However Signa, which was Built on € 5 billion DebtBegan to be separated Toward the end of 2023 When a central organization of it, Signa Holding, filed for insolevensi. Be Beko himself filed for personal vainness Last March.

Be Beko has been pre-judicial victim in Austria since January for alleged fraud, embezzlement and fraud.

Berlin and Munich criminal prosecutors are also investigating potential abuse and Italian law enforcement agencies Arrest warrant issued Last year, local officials were accused of paying suspicious payment.

In December, a lawyer in Benco said that his client was confident that “any complaint against him could be made clear enough to be misinterpreted”.

Austrian prosecutors are accused of transferring cash and several million Euro valuable resources at the same time while injecting $ 35 million to a failed property holding company in accordance with the 38-page arrest warrant and the Financial Times. Reach – € 8mn with valuable furniture, € 90,000 Patech Philip Watch and expensive hunting rifles.

One of the controversial transactions marked by prosecutors is the sale of the luxurious estate Villa Eden Gardon in Italy in 2021, originally owned by Signa Holding and sold at $ 46 million in a foundation controlled by Beko Ma Inberg in August 2021.

Instead of cash, prosecutors say that the mansion was paid for the use of shares at a Signa Assistant Organization, which was filed for three months later when filed for insolence.

Prosecutors complained that the transaction was “artificial and economically indescribable” because it changed the luxurious real estate for a heavy depreciated equity section in a fighter company.

They claim that the transaction was unintestrated and there was a lack of details of the changing hands in the sales documents, usually the standard method for this national complex agreement.

Furthermore, the prosecutors complained that Beau called two family basis – a mother Inagberg, controlled by a retired nursery school teacher and one was controlled by his daughter Laura – which was a number of possible suspicious transactions.

Prosecutors also expressed concern about paying $ 2 million in cash to make a nearby man in 2021: According to the arrest warrant, a series of payments between 20 and 2021 is part of a series of payments between 20 and 2021.

They complained to hide € 8MN worth of furniture in an inbrack mansion and took the issue of paying € 360,000 to a legal entity owned by Insbrock in October 2023, identifying it as a payment in advance to rent it Identify as money in advance, the next four years. Prosecutors claim that there is a lack of “purposeful fairness” of this payment.

At the same time as Beneco’s alleged assets in 2021, he alleged that he was also confusing investors about his financial health.

In mid -2021, when its own investment car fell in his bank account thousands of euros in his bank account, and according to an effective investigation into the Insolvent, Becko promised that he personally would contribute to Signa Holding to increase $ 350 million capital to $ 35 million, arrest warrant state.

Prosecutors claim that he chanted investment by his two business partners to mask the source of the fund through multiple legal entities in his empire and then made the money a mistake as his own contribution.

A Benco lawyer did not respond to any request for the comment. Vienna prosecutors refused to comment.