Nathalie Benko had her husband put on a safe with the bankruptcy of her husband. Now the researchers of the Soko Signa of the Federal Criminal Police Office are confronted with many questions. René Benko’s answers knows the “Kroon”.
You would think it is a script for a thriller: a safe, hidden in the house of Nathalie Benko’s family members in a remote place in Tyrol, caused a sensation during a house search. The intervening report of the Soko Signa, which is available on 2 May, which is presented by the “Kroon”, illuminated in detail how and when the safe was purchased and installed – apparently in close coordination with Nathalie Benko itself.
On January 23, 2025, a safe was discovered in the house of Nathalie Benko’s family members in Pfunds. In addition to the heavy steel cupboard, the researchers also found stressful communication material on the secure mobile phones of the residents of the house, who have now testified as witnesses. These results: the safe was no coincidence.
Close coordination
Already in 28 February 2024 the family member in the Tyroolean Oberland sent a photo of the website “Eisenbach-tresore.at” via WhatsApp to Nathalie Benko. On March 6, photos will be taken in a Tresorfach store of Innsbruck; The safe, which later appeared in pounds, can be clearly identified on these recordings. Only two days later, on March 8, 2024, the bankruptcy procedure will be opened through Financial Juggler and Signa founder René Benko on the Innsbruck Regional Court.
On March 10, the family members of Nathalie Benko will send a photo of a liberated parking space with the question: “Is that okay?”
Nathalie Benko’s answer: “Perfect”.
A short time later, Nathalie Benko writes: “Maybe you burn the memorandum at some point”.
Answer from the family members: “already done.”
Video of 38 seconds
On March 11, 2024, the 85-year-old entrepreneur E., owner of an Innsbruck Tresorfach store, safely brought personally to Pfunds. He collected it together with the male family member of Nathalie Benko. A “demo video” of 38 seconds is made of the structure and code programming. And sent it to Nathalie Benko on March 23.
The time and circumstances of this purchasing have explosive: the safe is installed against René Benko exactly two days after the insolvency procedure was opened. Researchers found 120,000 euros in cash, rings, but also cufflinks and wrist watches for men during the later study in January 2025.
“I didn’t put anything in it”
In the case of his suspect at the end of April 2025, René Benko stated in the opinion of Vienna-Josefstadt now whether all the objects found in the safe were brought there by his wife:
“I can speak for myself and know that I have not put anything in the safe.”
Most watches – each four – were gifts to his young sons (then six and eleven years old), which he claims to have given away with Christmas 2021, as it were at the height of his professional creativity. According to the billion dollars, three other clocks that he no longer had “himself on the radar” were because it was that gifts were meant for a charity auction of the non-profit foundation of his wife.
Guided wrist watches
In addition, Benko, as part of the watches on my sons at the end of 2021, at the end of 2021, at the end of 2021 with my wife that I also select the cufflinks of the boys (…) “His wife” received these incidental gifts for detention because of the age of the two sons “. He, Benko, has more often borrowed in the course.
Finally, the researchers are surprised why Nathalie Benko only wants to return the rings of the safe against Tyrolean. And ask your husband: “Can you explain to us why your wife did not need the surrender of the wrist watches and cufflinks that you supposedly gave your sons, as well as the publication of the remaining wrist watches that were meant for” charity projects “of your wife?”
Benko: “You have to ask my wife specifically.”
Source: Krone
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