The woman with the elegant French braid who has to sit in the dock of the Viennese court is 75 years old. She is said to be a fraud, but takes on the role of a victim not only because of illness. According to the indictment, she brought 40 victims about 900,000 euros.
The woman does not talk about what the public prosecutor accuses her of, namely serious commercial fraud: she is ill and has difficulty concentrating due to the medication. Through her lawyer Lukas Kollmann, she hands over a written statement, which Judge Tolstiuk reads.
It was billions
It all started with a loan she couldn’t get. So she searched the internet for sponsors and came across an “international company”. It involved financing large projects – from a car workshop to wholesale gemstones to construction projects. It involved loans worth billions, they had “offices” in Vienna, Cologne, Majorca and a notary in Buenos Aires. She liked the business model, so she founded a company and became a partner.
“Pre-financing costs” were demanded from the project applicants – and now one can at last guess where the journey went: the credit bank in Switzerland (!) of all places was bankrupt, all the money was gone. That she doesn’t want it either – she passed it on to the business partners who were convicted or went into hiding. “In retrospect, I should have realized earlier that I myself had been trapped by scammers,” she writes in her statement. adjourned.
Source: Krone
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