A year ago,
René Benko
(46) ruled over a fairytale-like empire of glittering real estate and luxury department stores. It has now become one of the most spectacular and probably most unusual bankruptcies Europe has ever experienced. The public can watch, practically in slow motion, how the conglomerate of construction projects such as the Elbtower in Hamburg, the Lamarr in Vienna and consumer stores such as the KaDeWe in Berlin are disintegrating.
Manager magazine reporters Margret Hucko and Martin Noé have been researching the case for months, uncovering strange financial outflows and identifying backers and billionaires who feel cheated. Both of them were just in Vienna to take an interim inventory of this evil billion-dollar game.
Why does Benko still seem to have influence over part of the empire despite the bankruptcy? How great is the damage to German taxpayers now? Who is investigating whom? And why doesn't just Benko's inner circle have to worry about possible criminal prosecution? Hucko and Noé provide information about this in this podcast in conversation with manager-magazin editor-in-chief Sven Clausen.
In the “Das Thema” podcast, editor-in-chief Sven Clausen provides information every week about the editorial team’s exclusive findings on a topic that is crucial for the German economy. You can subscribe to the podcast via manager magazin as well as on Spotify, Apple, Deezer and Google.
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