Dusseldorf - Reuben V. Stephan Bauer (38) declared itself the heir of the rich Spreewald cucumbers inventor. Asset managers and businessmen rushed to the supposedly well-heeled men like moths to light again. When the farmer then tried to order 325 million euros at the German Bundesbank, the farce was a case for the judiciary.
A modern Captain von Köpenick version, so well is only possible in Dusseldorf. And where everything had its beginning? In the business center of the city at the Berliner Sparkasse avenue. Here, the farmer met the management consultant, Albert I. (29). The suspect believed to be soon, for a large fish which he had on his line, wanted to participate in the supposedly big cake.
Albert I: "The man said that he was still a company for environmental technology and get commissions for placements for the construction of power plants. He is now looking for a money manager. "
Albert I, asserts: "I believed him. For me it was a great opportunity. "Eagerly he drummed businessmen, lawyers, consultants, together. Including company president Stefan F. (44).
The idea: A chain of dental laboratories should be withdrawn. Then should finally cash flow. The farmer went to the businessman to the Bundesbank and tried it with a naive trick. He put out a transfer form. From a completely fictitious account of the bank money should be transferred to an escrow account is not worth seizing. Whopping 325 million euros! The vertigo flew immediately. Stefan F. and Stephan V. arrested. Attempted fraud. Albert I was lucky: "I slept through the banking date."
The beet farmers must now two and half years behind bars. Stefan F. was acquitted because he had also been tricked.
