The former office manager of René Benko, who invests in the real estate sector with financial support from Sebastian Kurz, walked in and out in the offices of Vienna Signa until recently. The advisory contract has now been terminated.
In the middle of the pre -woke, “Krone” and “News” reported about the activities of Lukas Glatz (29) in the real estate sector. The former office chief of the Financial Juggler René Benko also developed his own entrepreneurial activities after the collapse of the Signa Group in the spring of 2024. With a society called “Calvus Brevis”, Latin for “Glatz (E) and Short”. The financial fuel for this – a loan of more than 100,000 euros – came from SK Beseiligungs GmbH from Sebastian Kurz, who had helped to search for the Tyrolean billion dollars. Glatz, Kurz and Benko Jetten together in the Signa Private Pilot in the Arab world looking for new sources of money.
Employee, consultant and entrepreneur
The cause of “Calvus Brevis” has been explosively investigated for various reasons: Lukas Glatz still worked as a well-paid ex-Benko Office Manager for Signa Holding until 1 February 2024. After that he had a well-detached employee contract with the financial Marod Signa Development Selection, which until the end of August. From that moment on, he was active as a consultant for Signa Prime Selection AG, in which the most important Signa -unanimous good in the locations in the city center was bundled.
In February and March 2024, Lukas Glatz and Sebastian Kurz voted against the modalities for “Calvus Brevis”, in which Glatz officially appeared. At the same time, he negotiated the sale of the Signa Prime as an employee of the Signa development, such as the Hotel Bauer in Venice. He was in contact with the German Prospect Christoph Schoeller, who was interested in the Hotel Bauer and later received the contract for Walther Park in Bolzano through one of his companies. You were with you. And a short time later via “Calvus Brevis” together in the store.
Because in October 2024, a few weeks after the official start of the GLATZ advice activity for Signa Prime, the company “Calvus Brevis” founded a subsidiary in which a third of a Munich company of Christoph Schoegeller participated. According to Sebastian Kurz, “Calvus Brevis” invests mainly in student and residential properties; That has nothing to do with Signa Real Estate or René Benko.
Mass manager checks conflicts of interest
Immediately after the report from “Krone” and “News”, Signna-Prime-Masse manager Norbert Abel pulled the ripcord. Glatz no longer has to go in and out of the Signa. It does not result in an optimal appearance if a long-term Signa Insider and former Benko confidence such as Lukas Glatz is involved in the sale of Signa Real Estate-Nu linked to a possible potential buyer such as Schoeller through a common society.
Abel has drawn up a spokesperson: “The consultant contract with Mr Glatz has now been terminated by a mutual agreement. Regardless of this, the insolvency manager of Signa Prime Selection takes the current reports as an opportunity to intensively examine the activity of Mr Glatz with regard to the right to be the right to be the right to be the right to be the right to be you”
Only at the beginning of February 2025 did the German family group Schoeller acquire the upper West Hochhaus in Berlin, once the head office of Signa Germany for 450 million euros.
Source: Krone
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