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...Benko held no formal managerial role in Signa after being convicted for bribery by an Austrian court in 2013....
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...The rapid unravelling of the group has left lenders across Europe racing to assess their exposure to the business empire of Austrian billionaire René Benko and work out what claims they might have on Signa...
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...to Signa Holding, the company at the centre of René Benko’s crisis-stricken European luxury property empire, on Tuesday announced they were making most employees of the company redundant as they raced to...
...Behind the glittery facades of London’s Selfridges and New York’s Chrysler Building, Austrian property billionaire René Benko assembled a financial time bomb....
...Signa Holding, the sprawling European property empire of Austrian billionaire René Benko, has filed for insolvency proceedings in Vienna....
...After a trial that lasted nearly four weeks, jurors in Manhattan federal court deliberated just five hours before finding in Sotheby’s favour on multiple counts of aiding and abetting fraud....
...Then, in 1907, the Parisian jeweller and glassmaker René Lalique was commissioned by perfumer François Coty to produce ornate glass bottles for fragrances, later including his pioneering Chypre....
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...Emails showed Valette asking a colleague to have her client name a price for a René Magritte painting that Bouvier wanted....
...In the south-west city of Bayonne on the Atlantic coast, mayor Jean René Etchegaray has had some success in curbing the platforms....
...Rybolovlev has sued Sotheby’s in Manhattan federal court and accused it of helping a high-profile art dealer vastly inflate the prices of famed pieces of art, including Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi...
...Under the rules, civil society groups would be able to take businesses to court over harm caused by impacts from their supply chains....
...On Friday, a German subsidiary of the group, Signa Real Estate Management (Signa REM), applied for bankruptcy protection in Berlin, according to a court filing seen by the FT....
...The Austrian property and retail billionaire René Benko has been acquitted of bribery charges in a closely watched court case....
...René Benko, its charismatic billionaire founder, was forced off the board this month by his minority co-investors while the company undergoes an urgent restructuring....
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...“René Benko is very good at telling stories,” said Leonhard Dobusch, professor of management at the University of Innsbruck....
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...“All cases that have been heard in court so far have ended in acquittal. This case will be no different.”...
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