The Public Prosecution Service has been investigating a lively Viennese woman for a year and a half. The procedure took a total of three years. She was accused of meticulously forging her half-brother’s will. The pensioner is charged and faces a prison sentence. The trial reveals: the document is in fact forged. But not from her.
With her curls freshly styled and her beautiful black shoes on, an 89-year-old Viennese woman went to the regional criminal court. It is the finale of a very stressful affair that has been dragging on for three years. The retiree, who has already dealt with misfortunes such as the tragic loss of her son, is facing charges and a threat of up to three years in prison.
Envelope was in the deceased’s pocket
According to the Viennese public prosecutor’s office, she allegedly forged the will of her last relative, her half-brother. The man died at the end of July 2021. While clearing his house, Mrs. R. found an envelope with the text ‘Will’ in her brother’s bag in the presence of two women and took it to the notary. The only difference from the Old Testament, in which she would have received valuable works of art and an apartment: the house on the lake, in which she would have had the right to live for life according to the original will, would also have become her property.
“Under the original will, my client could not have inherited or sold the house. But both are completely irrelevant to her because she has no family or debts,” explains her lawyer Bettina Caspar-Bures. And the defendant also claims: “I didn’t forge it. I found it and thought it was my brother’s handwriting.’
According to the prosecutor, the forgery was carried out with a lot of criminal energy and meticulous planning. “Do you think such meticulous forgery is possible at an old age – my client was 86 at the time?” Caspar-Bures said during the meeting.
The court follows her argument and definitively acquits the relieved 89-year-old! The man who inherits the house according to the first will wants Mrs. R. to have it declared ‘worthy of inheritance’ in the civil court and he inherits everything – including the valuables. An acquaintance of the deceased, who did electrical work for him, used the forgery of the will as an argument.
Will the investigation continue now?
But that has now been refuted. It remains unclear who actually forged the document. It is quite possible that the StA Vienna will reopen the exciting case. Mrs. R. no longer wants to deal with it. She says: “I am happy that the allegations against me have finally been put to rest.”
Source: Krone
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