A 36-year-old Carinthian is said to have conned former Davicsup player Hans Kary with risky tendencies and defrauded him of almost 600,000 euros: “In a very lousy way!” But nothing came of the trial on Wednesday.
“My client has been shamefully deceived,” says lawyer Thomas Kralik, who represents former Davis Cup player Hans Kary as a private party representative in the fraud proceedings at the Klagenfurt Regional Court: Kary was a customer of a Carinthian bank for 40 years – he trusted the employees of its branch is correspondingly large.
And according to the Klagenfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office, he was exploited in the worst way: a 36-year-old caregiver allegedly deprived the 74-year-old of his pension provision of almost 600,000 euros. How? “He offered him a very lucrative employment package,” says Kralik. “But it is not intended for all customers, so the cash flows would have to go in cash or through other accounts.” The former top athlete wanted to seize the opportunity, especially because the banker was considered a proven securities specialist. In deep grief after a family death, Kary later even gave the account manager blank signatures for investments.
But within a year, much of the money had disappeared – gambled away in highly speculative derivative transactions, which the banker tried to cover up during internal bank audits with personal donations of money for a fictitious study or as a baptismal gift for a child. For the Public Prosecution Service, this all amounts to serious fraud, embezzlement and money laundering; The defendant must confess to at least some of the charges; he is of course presumed innocent. Judge Michaela Sanin will not rule until the end of January.
Because the hearing date on Wednesday morning was canceled at short notice: first the defendant did not come, then the jury was missing due to a scheduling error. In any case, it was not without reason that victim Kary traveled from his hometown of Vienna to his native Carinthia: he was – late, but still – honored as a successful tennis player by the city of Klagenfurt with an entry in the Golden Book.
Source: Krone
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