Investigations Against Benko

People ♦ Published: November 26, 2011; 17:54 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian real estate investor Benko is suspected for money laundering. Benko denies and sees a link to the Kaufhof-deal.

Investigations Against Benko / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Atrm [Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)]

According to the prosecution authority, investigations are already running for several months. There are still loads of documents which are not analyzed yet. The complaint is not anonymous, the prosecution authority explained. Nevertheless, Benko sees a “massive dirty campaigning” against him.

Moreover, the investor said that the prosecution authority did not contact him.…