Little with few further details about the arrest that René Benkos becomes known. The “Kroon” now learned when he spent his last moments freedom.
On Thursday at 8.30 am the handcuffs for René Benko in Innsbruck clicked. He was arrested in the office of his prestige project, the Tyrol department store in Maria Theresien Strasse 31. Signa Holding still has a chair on the third floor of the building complex.
It ended where it all started
There is no lack of irony that the dazzling rise of Benko was ended by the local judiciary, where it all started. The Tyrol department store was Benko’s first, large project, in 2004 he acquired the building, let it demolished and the current building built up until 2010.
The construction project had also caused a sensation at the moment because the facade of the building was part of the general statue of the historic Maria-Theresien-Straße and was therefore a listed building.
Prominent lobbyist
Another prominent Signa name is connected to the Tyrol department store: Alfred Gusenbauer, who was a federal chancellor during the construction period, had not only campaigned for demolition and new construction. Even after his departure from politics without a cooling phase, he was immediately committed by Benko and paid for it princely.
The official owner of the Tyrol department store is still the Insolvent Signa Prime selection AG. In fact, the prestige object, like other properties, should have been sold. Recently – as reported – the building in Renngasse 2 in Vienna, in which the Bank Austria Kunstforum was housed, the owner changed.
Benko moved to Vienna
René Benko himself was brought to the Josefstadt -judiciary to Vienna on Thursday evening and guardianship was eventually imposed on Friday afternoon.
Source: Krone
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