The psychiatric expert who, together with a lawyer and a notary, is said to have deprived wealthy demented clients of their properties was released from custody in Wels on Thursday. The investigations into the real estate deals are continuing.
The request for release of his client, the psychiatric expert, was granted, his defense attorney confirmed. The lawyer speaks of “completely baseless allegations”. The file has now been sent from the Wels public prosecutor’s office to the Economic and Corruption Public Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA). The release from custody does not mean that the expert is no longer being investigated, “nothing has changed in the suspicion of the crime,” the “Oberösterreichische Nachrichten” quoted a spokesman for the WKStA. Investigations against TrioAgainst the lawyer, the notary and the psychiatrist Investigations are underway into serious fraud. The latter is also suspected of having offered a courtesy report in 2023 in connection with the intended creation of a will to a person with dementia. The lawyer and the notary are suspected of having persuaded a woman suffering from dementia to sign a handover agreement in 2022, two donation agreements in the event of her death and one Sign the power of attorney. The prosecution assumes that the woman was not aware that with her signature she was transferring her entire agricultural property in Pasching, including real estate, to her nephew. In a previous legal dispute that lasted seven years, she had always emphasized that her nephew should not receive any property from her. Two cases According to the public prosecutor’s office, the contracts were drawn up by the lawyer or her office and certified by the notary, even though the person concerned had dementia be. However, the lawyer presented two private reports from a psychiatrist in the adult protection proceedings, which attested that the pensioner had full business and testamentary capacity. The public prosecutor’s office assumes that it could have been a courtesy report. Seven months later, the lawyer again submitted a report from the same expert, who suddenly came to the conclusion that the woman was no longer legally competent and had the capacity to make a testament, which is why the power of attorney that had been drawn up in favor of the lawyer herself became effective. In another In this case, charges of serious fraud have already been brought against two managing directors of a real estate company, a real estate agent, two lawyers and a notary. They are said to have stolen her property on Lake Traunsee from a woman who was no longer legally competent at the time of the sale at a price that was far too low. The owner is said to have been deprived of at least 900,000 euros.
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