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Fuel storage for “bad times”
This selective perception evidently also led to the fulfillment of Puchers’ even seemingly grotesque wishes. The 60-year-old owner of a goods trading company accused the WKStA of “money laundering” (presumption of innocence applies), “had to build a gas station” for Pucher on his company’s premises in 2005. The boss The bank wanted to “store fuel for bad times,” and the gas station should be officially needed for its merchandise trading business.
“If he had said that the Pucher gas station is used to store fuel, everyone would have thought he was stupid,” said the 60-year-old man from northern Burgenland. In the end, he was left with the gas station expenses of almost 400,000 euros, although Pucher initially promised to finance the construction.
Elsewhere, however, the gullible man claims to have received money from Pucher: the bank manager gave him around 70,000 euros in various installments; Pucher always took the wads of money out of the desk drawer of the Mattersburg commercial bank. The businessman went directly to the ground floor of the bank and deposited the amounts in “his” credit account. He brought the receipt to Pucher.
In reality, however, the loan was for a recycling company in Mattersburg, managed by the 60-year-old, Pucher had offered it.
No enrichment, but doubt
He personally never withdrew anything from this account, Pucher’s confidant said. “I have not gotten rich,” he told police.
On behalf of Puchers, he also deposited money in other banks for “five years”, each of 10,000 to 15,000 euros. He completed two to three tours a year and visited three to ten branches of different banks on each tour. He never asked Pucher about “meaning, purpose, or other things.”
However, according to the accused, it was “somewhat clear” to him that all this “was not entirely correct.”
