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The public prosecutor’s office in Wiener Neustadt and the fraud investigators from the Lower Austrian State Criminal Police Office are investigating the man on suspicion of infidelity. “He is said to have sold his client’s real estate as an authorized representative and transferred the proceeds of the sale to his wife’s private account,” confirms public prosecutor spokesman Erich Habitzl.
Stephan B., now 85 years old and born and raised in Berlin, got into real estate in Austria through his mother. In the course of various purchase transactions, he met the lawyer. Since the German himself owned a hotel, bars and real estate in Madeira, he also spent most of his time there.
Money Laundering Report
Therefore, in 2016 he commissioned the Lower Austrian lawyer to sell a property in Switzerland. He must have been amazed when he called the manager there two years later to ask why the house had still not been sold. The answer was that the property had changed hands a long time ago for more than a million euros. Stephan B. had no dew of what investigators later found out. Shortly after the real estate sale in Switzerland, the Volksbank filed a money laundering report with the Federal Criminal Police Office. Almost 1.3 million euros were paid into the account of the lawyer’s wife. However, the procedure was discontinued.
The lawyer then opened an account in Liechtenstein as the authorized signatory in the name of the German and transferred EUR 700,000 there. According to insiders, this money is also gone.
Stephan B. felt cheated of his fortune and filed a complaint in Germany. The procedure was ceded to Austria.
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