Six years ago, fraudsters stole more than 50 million euros from the aircraft component manufacturer FACC in the Innviertel region. Now the criminal trial against a 63-year-old man in Graz begins. The Tunisian-born is accused in an indictment by the economic and corruption prosecutor’s office of founding front companies and organizing the fraud for years from Israel.
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FACC manufactures aircraft components, in 2021 there was a loss of around 25 million euros with a turnover of 498 million euros.
A fraud process with a particularly spectacular background begins on Tuesday in Graz: a 63-year-old man who is said to have played a key role in one of the largest fraud cases in domestic economic history – that at the Austro-Chinese aircraft component manufacturer FACC in Ried im Innkreis – has to answer to a jury panel , in which no less than 54 million euros were stolen at the end of 2015. An employee in the finance department was persuaded by fake e-mails to transfer the amounts for an allegedly secret company acquisition abroad. It was a …
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