TPA partner Karin Fuhrmann is suspected of being involved in a support fraud around the Chalet N. It is around 1.2 million euros in tax money.
Thursday, January 23. At 8.30 am, criminalists of Soko Signna René Benko judgment in his office in the Tyrol department store. At the same time, researchers are struggling through the chalet N in Oberlech on behalf of the office of the economic and corruption of the prosecutor (WKSTA), who always used the financial juggler and his family as a noble winter house.
There was even a “private office”
The Benko Chalet on the Arlberg is part of the Laura Foundation, which has been looking for the mass manager of the billion Dollar Pleitier since January 30 at the Innsbruck Regional Court.
A hotel company was officially registered in Lech. However, the researchers now have a huge question. You think: the six -star stay “served primarily as an accommodation for René Benko and his business partners”. Benko even had a “private office” there, for which only he had access.
Now, according to the research of “Krone” and “News”, the accusation of serious fraud concerns. Because: René Benko and Midfares are accused of receiving state financing of more than 1.2 million euros in Corona Pandemic for the alleged “private hotel”. From the COFAG pot, which was filled with the money from the taxpayers.
“Creation of incorrect reports”
The researchers think that the financing abuse has been used: not for the official closure of a hotel, but, among other things, “to finance the private lifestyle of René Benko”.
One of the most famous tax advisers in the country is also the target: Karin Fuhrmann, partner of the TPA and a close Benko Confidante, would have been involved in serious fraud for many years or in the abuse of financing. In a WKSTA document, “creating incorrect reports, statements or confirmations as side dishes for the financing applications is mentioned”.
Benko and Fuhrmann have always strongly denied all allegations. The suspicion of innocence applies.
Source: Krone
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