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Unister Chef Wagner to have been conned before plane crash, he probably was not clean.

At some point in the next few months, at next years Thomas Wagner should have to appear in court. He would then have to take on the dock space. At the 15th Criminal Court of Leipzig against the responsible of the group Unister proceedings for tax evasion and other offenses is pending. One of four accused was Wagner, had Unister founded and made large. With online travel portals such as “fluege.de” and “ab-in-den-urlaub.de”, with which more and more tourists booked their holidays. A seemingly thriving business for the Leipzig-based company group which has at least 1100 employees. Was it a business that was partly based on lies and deceit?

12 million Euro credit to 1.5 million euros in advance. All in bar

This will find the district court Leipzig, but the most prominent of the four defendants should be deleted from the list of accused the judiciary. Wagner has come at the age of 38 years in the past week killed. The private plane crashed in Slovenia on the return flight from Venice. He apparently wanted to raise money for his for some time quite clammy Group. Along with Wagner died a co-founder of Unister, another businessman and the pilot. The circumstances of short trips to Venice seem just as questionable as the finances of Unister. A source refers to the accounting of the now insolvent travel portal as “chaotic” and “opaque”.

was Opaque probably much at Unister, just like the last journey of the founder. The company is said to be numb for several months. Now the General Prosecutor Dresden under investigation for suspicion of embezzlement and fraud. May have been young entrepreneurs Wagner, who had already entered as a student into the travel business, also conned on his trip to Venice. His partner is said to have told investigators her boyfriend wanted to raise money for Unister in Venice. He had been promised by an Israeli businessman twelve million euro loan. Prerequisite: He, Wagner, had previously paid 1.5 million euros loan loss insurance. Everything in cash. First, the matter had gone well. On the way back to the airport in Venice Wagner was however noticed that only the top notes of the bundles of money with the alleged twelve million euros were genuine. The reports Focus , so it also tells an insider.

The travel portal will have customers cheated in more than 87 000 cases to discounts

The Unister boss filed a complaint in any case with the Italian authorities – before returning to Leipzig, which ended with the death. Also on board was, in addition to Wagner, a co-founder of the travel portal and the pilot, and the putative promoter of gone wrong deal in Venice. Another complaint, which apparently is based on the statement of Wagner’s life companion, is before the Dresden chief public prosecutor. The Saxon Investigators but after not only the suspected fraud. They also examine what is going on with the 1.5 million euros to be said to have taken Unister chef with Venice. Were the company funds, and if so, they were issued recklessly? So misappropriated? A co-partner of the travel portal has filed a complaint against unknown persons.

With a lot of hype and with prominent advertising figures like Michael Ballack and Reiner Calmund, football player or football manager, Unister had travel companies such as TUI increasingly added. At peak times, Wagner sat Group by two billion euros per year. However long the erstwhile success story turns more and more into a crime, not only because of the money suitcase in Venice and thus triggered new investigations. The Attorney General’s Office in Dresden cares since year and day to Unister. It is also about the suspicion of a gang and commercial computer fraud in more than 87 000 cases. The travel portal is said to have not passed discounts about airline to customers.

Whether it comes to the trial against the company managers in this point, the district court Leipzig has not yet decided. Other charges have already been authorized for the trial, which begins sometime now without Wagner, the crashed CEO. Whose legacy cares Lucas Flöther, a lawyer from hall, which was used as liquidator. After Wagner’s death one after the Unister Holding and several subsidiaries had filed for bankruptcy. Flöther must laboriously gain an Insight with his people now. He needs to explore how much money is spent and. A Sisyphean task.