The founder of the Corona test kit provider Lead Horizon, Michael Putz, is facing new allegations. Following a complaint, Vienna’s economic police are investigating a colleague for breach of trust, breach of trust and falsification of accounts.
One of the former directors, Christoph Steininger, submitted a statement of facts to the economic police on October 12. The suspicion of infidelity mainly concerns alleged transfers of assets from Lead Horizon to Putz’s new company, WePrevent Health Care GmbH. Putz allegedly moved unspecified assets from one company to another, which he has so far denied. Lead Horizon’s core team founded this company, he said. He himself was only supportive.
It wasn’t until Lead Horizon was liquidated on July 1 that WePrevent started to become operational, so they never had a business relationship. A supposedly unknown account into which money had allegedly flowed was also closed without any account movement. According to Putz, the account was accidentally not deleted by the bank. According to attorney Nora Mitchner, Steininger had the ability to investigate all business transactions.
Disputes between societies?
She spoke of a “dispute between companies.” There were “no justified suspicions, only accusations,” Putz’s lawyer said, according to Günther Rebisant. He looked at the files together with his client.
As for the falsification of the balance sheet against the colleague, the point is that underreported sales, even though the number of “Everything gargles” tests was higher last year than in 2021. The advertisement sometimes mentions missing accounting documents and supplier contracts. Putz responded that while more tests had been conducted, they had been used from warehouses. In other words, sales of these test kits were recorded with Lead Horizon in 2021, but were not used until 2022.
Illegal disposal of inventory
Another accusation relates to the alleged failure to make an inventory and the unlawful disposal of inventory. The reason why the inventories were not sold, according to Putz, was because after the end of the pandemic, no one was interested in such a warehouse anymore.
The majority owner of the Corona test kit provider is now considering taking legal action against the former business partner. He speaks of reputation and credit damage, but also of defamation. In the spring, the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office had already investigated possible breaches of trust, falsification of documents and evidence, and a possible violation of the Association Responsibility Act, based on a complaint. However, the investigations were all closed.
Source: Krone
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