The Bozner Tax Advisor and Connidant of the Fallen Signna founder René Benko, Heinz Peter Hager, was released from the house arrest on Tuesday. From that moment on this is also part of the past for another five suspects in the research into Benko’s stores in Italy, which have also been arrested under house arrest since December.
The dismissal from the house arrest was requested by the public prosecutor of Trento because the investigation could withdraw longer. The South Tyrolean Judge corresponded to the application, Hager was allowed to move freely again.
The other suspects were two South Tyrolean Architects, an official of the capital Bozen, an entrepreneur from Rovereto and the former mayor of the Trentin community of DRO and former senator, Vittorio Fravezzi.
Benko under suspicion of Mafia
The office of the public prosecutor in Trento, Benko, who is suspected of being a “leader of a Mafia -like criminal association”, which was established with the aim of obtaining concessions and permits to achieve unjustified profit, as stated from The research files.
The Tyrolean investor acted at the head of this criminal association with the help of the Bozner tax adviser Hager and the entrepreneur mentioned, was said by the Italian judicial authorities. The research has been conducted a total of 77 people since December.
Introduction to the end of February
Benko itself has been in custody in the judicial facility of Vienna since January 23. He was arrested in the rooms of his Innsbruck office. Guardianship was extended until the end of February last week. The economic and corruption lawyer accuses Benko of cheating investors and damaged creditors.
Despite the constant insolvency procedures that also affect him as a private individual, he would have tried to hide existing assets. It is said that he has hidden that he continued to act as a “factual ruler and cheaper” of the Laura Private Foundation.
Source: Krone
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