The Austrian banker accused of corruption arrived in the US to face the federal accusation that he had been conspired to wash hundreds of millions of dollars through the US financial system after fighting him from the UK for four years.
Peter Weinzierl, former CEO of Anglo Aab Aab Bank AG, is now in custody at the Metropolitan detention center in Brooklyn, New York, according to the Federal Prison Office, and is expected to appear at the Federal Court in Brookly today. Denied the accusation.
Weinzierl was accused in 2020 for alleged conspiracy with the collection of the most largest construction company Latin America, now named Novonor-in the ten-year scheme to pay bribes for getting business worldwide. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say he helped take more than $ 170 million from New York via bank to Offshore Shell accounts in one four -year period. The bank, better known under its old name Meinl Bank, has not been charged.
He was not appointed defendants in Weinzierl’s indictment, but the US said he would submit 2020 that his case was directly linked to the scandal around the Brazilian society. In 2016, he admitted that he was involved in a massive graft and a land with an offer dating back to at least 2001 and includes a hidden unit called “Institute of Bribery”. Weinzierl has been charged with four numbers, including one number of plots and two money laundering.
His American lawyers, Claiborne Porter and Michael B. Nadler, did not return the voice mailbox AE -maly, who tried to the case.
Weinzierl, 59, claimed that his arrest in the UK at the command of the US authorities was an abuse of a legal process. His British lawyers said their client was “attracted” to fly his private plane to London by an American espionage who told a person close to Weinzierl that he was working for a central intelligence agency – a claim that US lawyers refused to confirm or deny. Weinzierl was arrested at the airport.
According to the US, Meinl Bank’s money has been involved in US accounts to book false tax depreciation in Brazil. Then “he plunged many of the resulting Slush funds into the subsidiary of Meinl in Antigua and Barbuda to secretly pay bribes to foreign officials and intermediaries,” the prosecutors said. The accused described in detail the dizzy number of banks and Shell companies used in the alleged money laundering system, including banks in New York, Portugal, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Mozambique and Panama.
The prosecutors said that on Friday Weinzierl should remain in federal custody while waiting for a court and stated that it is a serious risk this year because it has no links to the US and has “essential assets outside the country”.
“This edition included a aircraft battle, which the defendant fought at every possible step,” said prosecutor Jonathan Siegel.
“As long as he stayed in the UK, the defendant could have hope that he would avoid court proceedings by fighting the publication,” Siegel wrote. “These hopes have now been interrupted and his motivation to escape has never been higher.”
Founded in 1923 as a savings club for employees Julius Meinl AG, coffee and food chains that prospered under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, faced collapse when the European central bank canceled its banking license. The ECB quoted alleged failures in the prevention of money laundering, even in connection with the removal. In 2020, the bank concluded insolvency proceedings.
In his guilt, he recognized the implementation of secret payments of about $ 788 million to foreign government officials, their representatives and political parties. While it agreed to pay $ 4.5 billion, the federal judge later determined that he could afford only $ 2.6 billion.
The case is the US v. Weinzierl, 20-CR-383, the US District Court, the Eastern District of New York.
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