Indictment against former drugstore Schlecker King – Derwesten.de

Stuttgart. It was one of the most spectacular bankruptcies of German postwar history, which was immediately filmed several times and whose victims now infamous: The fate of the “Schlecker women” moved in 2012 the whole country. Four years later, legal consequences is emerging which could lead to an equally startling process: The Stuttgart public prosecutor filed charges against the former drugstore King Anton Schlecker for premeditated bankruptcy. This was confirmed by the Stuttgart public prosecutor.

The 71 years old Schlecker and other family members are made shortly before the Schlecker bankruptcy million aside and have beyond the reach of creditors. In the case of Anton Schlecker it comes to the prosecution of intentional bankruptcy in several cases, with his wife Christa and two children Meike and Lars to aid to bankruptcy. Schleckers son and daughter have to answer also because of wrongful and infidelity.

25 000 lose their jobs

reports the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”, “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” and the According to “Handelsblatt” it’s in the 250-page indictment over alleged gifts Schleckers to his children and grandchildren and to millions of dollars, the Schlecker should have transferred to a company of his children. Prosecutors throw Schlecker also claims to have provided false information in budgets and given a false statement on oath.

Europe’s formerly largest drugstore chain Schlecker filed for bankruptcy in January 2012. About 25 000 people lost their jobs. The creditors demanded one billion euros. The trading company from Baden-Württemberg had his best times around 9000 markets at home and abroad. After a dispute over transferred assets from the company’s family Schlecker paid the liquidator after the bankruptcy of EUR 10.1 million. The Stuttgart prosecutor’s focus for economic crime identified three years. In bankruptcy am a road of up to five years imprisonment or a fine, in particular severe cases, up to ten years in prison.

master butcher from Ulm

The master butcher from Ulm In 1975, opened the first Schlecker drugstore. He made a group thereof, which in its heyday more than 55 000 people employed. The rise and fall of his empire were content for several television films. Starring in it took also affected by the bankruptcy workers, usually women who over the years rundown stores maintained under little comfortable conditions of life, but ultimately without a job and stood largely without compensation. This gives the accused Schlecker’ve managed assets at hand aside for Legal Prosecution an additional moral dimension.

The accusation of poor working conditions and low wages associated with the image of Schwaben least as much as the aura of Self Made -Manns who brought it to a billion-dollar fortune. And again lost. . Could catch a glimpse of the head only the employees in its retail outlets Schlecker stopped off at his regular Saturday missions

That Anton Schlecker even heydays of his company rather a phantom resembled, has a sad background: In 1987, the Schleckers and kidnapped two children.