The investigators of the SOKO Signa provide the mass administrator the ammunition that could give him access to the foundation’s ability of the “Benko family”.
The civil process of the Benko mass administrator Andreas Grabenweger against the alleged “straw woman” Ingeborg Benko was closed on Thursday after an hour. As reported, Benko’s mother is an economic beneficiary of the Laura Private Foundation and the INGBE Foundation, with whose distributions she has so far financed her son’s luxurious lifestyle.
However, the mass administrator believes that René Benko has control over both foundations in which he has parked a three -digit million assets.
Timely decision
Grabenweger aims to complain that Ingeborg Benko’s donor rights will pass to him. Because he wants to go to the foundation’s assets. He believes that the mother could not actually exercise her rights in the foundations without the son’s consent. Benko’s 74-year-old mother was not published in court. However, her lawyer put out that not only the mother, but also the foundations and René Benko himself had to be sued as a dispute. The judge said that for the time being he wants to clarify this legal question and has announced a “timely decision”.
However, he has also stated that he assumes that his civil procedure will be interrupted against Benko & Co on the basis of the pending investigation of the Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA). Those who are led as accused in criminal proceedings will also refer to their right to defeat in the civil proceedings. That means: you will not testify.
Files pulled
The three actual attorney of the WKStA assumes that René Benko has so far pulled the threads in the foundations.
“In the recently reimbursed interim report of the Soko Signa, the role of René Benko UA is processed in detail in the Laura private foundation,” says the arrest arrangement against Benko. “In addition to testimonies, telephone protocols, the report contains extensive correspondence on the mobile phone of René Benko, which proves that Benko disposes directly and without approval by the foundation’s heads with the wealth of the Laura private foundation and its subsidiary and also far-reaching control and information authorities reserved. ”
Seconds quickly
For example, the employee Arthur A., who is responsible for paying at the Laura Private Foundation, is said to have obtained the okay for transfers directly from René Benko.
“Unlowering is a chat message,” said the investigators, in which employees A. wrote to Benko in February 2023: “Rene, I may take 1.5 million euros from the LPS (note: Laura private foundation) To operate the tax office on a wide variety of levels ”. Benko is said to have answered “yes” within seconds.
“Due to the second -way approval, the investigators can be excluded,” that “René Benko would have dealt with the board of trustees in advance in advance of this decision”. In addition, Benko is said to have been “immediately authorized” in the recovery of real estate from the Laura Group and made “directly payment instructions” regarding a Laura company that holds valuable horses. He is also said to have prescribed a board of directors of the Laura private foundation what he has to write in emails.
Severe accusation
“There is no reasonable reason to assume that René Benko may have been off from this practice that has been lived for years,” says the arrest warrant. “Not least because he is completely dependent on grants” third side, in particular the foundations, in order to maintain his elaborate lifestyle despite bankruptcy. ”
The Soko Signa suspects Benko to have hidden a component of his assets or made aside and thereby reduce or thwart the satisfaction of the creditors. The suspicion is on fraudulent crida. The threat of punishment for millions of millions of up to ten years in prison. According to reports, René Benko, who is represented by the renowned criminal defense lawyer Norbert Wess, denies the allegations.