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...Lawyer Trevor Asserson acting for Sonja Kohn said: “This was a bad claim which should never have been brought. It has been crushingly and overwhelmingly defeated.”...
...Sonja Kohn, the Austrian banker, who was never a director but was an associate of Madoff, is also being pursued by the lawsuit....
...Austrian banker Sonja Kohn, also a defendant, is alleged to have received $27m purportedly for research but payments were made “pursuant to some form of clandestine agreement she had with Bernard Madoff”...
...The UK’s High Court has made a freezing order against the assets of Austrian banker Sonja Kohn, who introduced clients to Bernard Madoff, the convicted fraudster responsible for the largest Ponzi scheme...
...The judge’s decision did not address the charges against the other parties named in Mr Picard’s lawsuit, including failed Austrian bank Bank Medici and its former head Sonja Kohn....
...In her first newspaper interview since Mr Madoff’s fraud was exposed, Sonja Kohn, 62, denied receiving secret kickbacks or having suspected him of running a “Ponzi” scheme....
...Sonja Kohn are completely unfounded and untrue and have no basis in fact or in law. Medici and Mrs....
...The most prominent case is that of Austrian banker Sonja Kohn, whose Vienna-based Bank Medici had allegedly channelled $9bn to Mr Madoff over the course of two decades....
...Sonja Kohn was born in 1948 and married Erwin Kohn in 1970. They established a series of businesses and moved to Milan....
...The suit, the largest and most serious civil claim filed in the case, targets Bank Medici, the failed Austrian bank, Sonja Kohn, its former president, and Bank Austria and UniCredit, its partial owners,...
...The complaint against HSBC, filed on Sunday in the US — just days before the two-year expiration of Picard’s mandate in the case — named as defendants Sonja Kohn, an owner of Bank Medici, and members of...
...The biggest lawsuit, against UniCredit and long-time Madoff associate Sonja Kohn, accuses them of participating in an “illegal scheme” to send money to Mr Madoff....
...In addition to HSBC, the latest complaint, filed on Sunday in the US, named as defendants Sonja Kohn, an owner of Bank Medici, and members of the Benbassat family – Mario, Alberto and Stephane – along with...
...Another $27m was allegedly sent to Sonja Kohn, who has separately been sued by the US trustee for her alleged role in recruiting European investors....
...Sonja Kohn, who ran the obscure Bank Medici, is accused by Mr Picard of becoming a “criminal soulmate” of Mr Madoff by feeding European investors’ funds into his scheme (a charge that she denies)....
...He says Sonja Kohn, an Austrian woman who funnelled $9bn to Madoff from European clients over the years, shares no blame, despite the trustee’s lawsuit allegation that she was his “criminal soulmate”....
...Sonja Kohn, president and majority shareholder of Bank Medici, is suspected of charging the London outpost of the Madoff empire millions of pounds for worthless research....
...Sonja Kohn, president and majority shareholder of Bank Medici, is suspected of charging the London outpost of the Madoff empire millions of pounds for worthless research, said people familiar with the matter...
...Most glaring internationally, however, has been Bank Medici, the small Vienna-based wealth manager controlled by Sonja Kohn....
...Sonja Kohn showed characteristic bravado on Wednesday with a statement saying she was working flat-out in Vienna on a concept for the future of Bank Medici, which she founded in 1994....
...Sonja Kohn, an Austrian bank executive who helped raise funds that invested with Bernard Madoff, is hard to ignore in Vienna’s small financial community....
...The Vienna state prosecutor has launched a criminal investigation against Sonja Kohn, Bank Medici president and majority shareholder, on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust relating to more than $2.1bn...
...As the implications of the Madoff scandal intensify for Austria’s Bank Medici, the New York Times reports that the bank’s founder Sonja Kohn – known for her red bouffant wig apparently – has dropped out...
...Sonja Kohn, whose Bank Medici in Austria may have lost more than $3bn to Bernard Madoff’s scheme, said she was just as much a victim of what is allegedly the largest financial fraud in history as everyone...
...The Massachusetts filing may shed new light on the relationship between Mr Madoff and Sonja Kohn, the president and majority shareholder of Bank Medici, which was taken over by Austrian authorities after...
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