René Benko: Anti-corruption charges in South Tyrol and Lake Garda

René Benko is currently under pressure on two fronts. Apart from the house searches at Signa sites – on Friday there had been searches at two addresses again in Tyrol – the real estate entrepreneur also has to accept a slump in a corruption procedure.

Dieter Berninghaus, retail expert and once René Benko's closest advisor, does not want to have been very active in the incriminated capital increase.

Austrian prosecutors announced Friday that he was investigating a suspected woman who would have helped the real estate magnet Rene Benko hide assets of administrators and creditors involved in the breach of its real estate group Signa, reports...

It was about real estate, money and the whole "social fabric". With a few helpers, the Austrian businessman was supposed to have lubricated office holders in South Tyrol, Lake Garda or Verona for many years. That is what Italian investigators suggest.

In the causa around the Signa-Pleite of the Tyrolean real estate investor René Benko took place again on Friday in Tyrol house searches at two locations. As a reason the economic and corruption prosecutor's office (WKStA) called the extension of the investigation to another accused because of fraudulent Krida. She is said to have helped Benko to hide valuables in order to [...]

In the case surrounding the Signa bankruptcy of Tyrolean real estate investor René Benko, house searches were conducted again at two locations in Tyrol on Friday. The Economic and Corruption Prosecutor's Office (WKStA) cited the "expansion of the investigation to include another suspect" for fraudulent bankruptcy proceedings as the reason. She allegedly helped Benko "conceal valuables" in order to "protect them from the access of insolvency admi…