A banker who embezzled more than six million Euros of clients money has been given a relatively mild sentence when judges heard he suffers from bipolar disorder.The ex-clerk who was sacked in October 2008 was sentenced to one year in prison at Viennas Criminal Court yesterday (Weds). The man has managed to disguise […]
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A 23-year-old Romanian faces legal consequences for driving his car into an Alpine authority official.The 67-year-old Austrian ordered the young man to stop as he was travelling on a cycling path outside Inzing near Innsbruck in Tyrol on Sunday afternoon. The Romanian however hit his accelerator, knocked the man down and drove off.He was tracked […]
An investment consultant has been sentenced to prison for gambling away more than 400,000 Euros of customers money.Judges in Graz, Styria, heard yesterday (Weds) how the 36-year-old man promised high interest rates to his clients in order to compensate his rising gambling debts.The accused who has been addicted to sports wagering for years […]
A shop manager had a narrow escape as an elderly driver crashed though the stores glass front this morning (Fri).The 76-year-old woman from Wels had tried to park her car outside the Billa shop in Bad Ischl in Upper Austrias Gmunden district, but smashed through the front door. The pensioner is understood to have mixed […]
Police are hunting a Chinese fraudster who fled after trying to exchange stolen traveller checks worth almost 800 Euros.Graz police announced today (Fri) the man attempted to turn American Traveller Cheques worth 1,000 US dollars (790 Euros) into money at a city centre bank yesterday.The conman left his passport behind as he ran away after […]