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More than a hundred bankruptcies, dozens of civil lawsuits, criminal investigations in several EU countries: the legal processing of the Signa bankruptcy is extremely time-consuming and complex, the documents fill many, many volumes of files. Nevertheless, it is a slim 14 pages that will bring René Benko to the criminal court for the first time on Tuesday in the Signa case. In its first indictment, the Economic and Corruption Public Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA) accuses Benko of fraudulent crime. The Signa founder is said to have concealed assets and thus damaged creditors; Benko denies this and is presumed innocent.
