The woman with the elegant French braid who has to take a seat in the dock of the Vienna Regional Court is 75 years old. She is said to be a fraud, but takes on the role of victim, not just because of illness. According to the indictment, she brought 40 victims around 900,000 euros.
The woman does not talk about what the public prosecutor’s office accuses her of – namely serious commercial fraud: she is ill and has difficulty concentrating because of the medication. Through her lawyer Lukas Kollmann, she hands over a written statement, which Judge Tolstiuk reads out. It was all about billions. It all started with a loan that she had not received. So she searched the internet for sponsors and came across an “international company”. It was about the financing of major projects – from a car workshop to wholesale gemstones to construction projects. It was about loans worth billions, they had “offices” in Vienna, Cologne, Mallorca and a notary in Buenos Aires. She liked the business model, so she founded a company and became a partner. “Pre-financing costs” were demanded of the project applicants – and now at the latest you can guess where the journey was going: the credit bank in Switzerland (!) of all places was broke, all the money was gone . That she doesn’t want it either – she passed it on to the business partners who have either been convicted or have gone into hiding. “In retrospect, I should have realized earlier that I myself had been taken in by scammers,” she wrote in her statement. adjourned.
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