Austrian on trial over Aldi blackmail

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The trial of a 61-year-old man from Salzburg, who blackmailed the company Aldi South, started yesterday (Wed) in Duisburg, Germany. The defendant has already admitted that he demanded 15 million Euros from the firm. The defendant, who is the publisher of a German magazine in Pattaya, Thailand, stated that he was forced to blackmail Aldi […]

Court rejects frozen fish poaching case

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Judges ordered bungling police to drop a trout poaching case in Kufstein, Austria, after hearing that the defendant had been allowed to eat the only evidence. Dad Alexander Donninger, 42, had hooked a deep frozen trout he’d bought from a supermarket on a fishing rod and dangled it in a river so his seven-tear-old twins […]

Mild verdict for cheating banker due to depression

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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 Vienna’s Criminal Court yesterday (Weds). The man has managed to disguise […]

German jailed for blackmailing food firms

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A German has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for blackmailing Austrian food companies.Markus Rewinski sent threatening e-mails to confectionery company Manner and delicatessen producer Wojnar’s last year. He also laced products of the Viennese firms and placed them on shelves in shops in Tyrol. Police stressed after arresting Rewinski last […]

Carinthian jailed for killing man by kicking head

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A Carinthian has been sentenced to 14 years in jail for killing a man by kicking his head “like a football” when an argument got out of control.The jury at Klagenfurt’s provincial court heard today (Tues) how the 21-year-old booted his opponent’s skull at a park in the city in June 2008. Witnesses said in […]