Federal Railways (ÖBB) is in hot water after it emerged the company drastically reduced the validity period of return tickets.Austrian newspapers report today (Thurs) that return tickets are valid for just two days as of now instead of one month. Some dailies claim ÖBB did not inform its customers about the change at stations or […]
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An Austrian businesswoman accused of being Bernard Madoff’s “criminal soul mate” has claimed she was a victim of the bankers illicit operations herself.Madoff was sentenced to a maximum 150 years in jail by a court in New York City in the United States for what is widely considered to be the largest so-called Ponzi scheme […]
Austria blocks monthly Greece aid
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Austria has not yet given the green light to transfer its December rate to fellow European Union (EU) member Greece, it has emerged.Peoples Party (ÖVP) leader and Finance Minister Josef Pröll announced today (Tues): “Statistics give no reason to hand over the money from an Austrian point of view.”Pröll argued that figures have shown that […]
Prom treasurer squanders 3,500
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A young Styrian faces embezzlement charges for spending thousands of Euros of his schoolmates savings for their upcoming graduation ball.Colleagues reported the 18-year-old to police after finding out that he spent around 3,500 Euros of money collected by them to finance their upcoming prom (Maturaball).Police in Liezen said today (Weds) 87 students in their final […]
A scheming parcel delivery man accused paramedics of stealing from him after losing more than 1,000 Euros of customers money in the casino.Police said today (Tues) the man from southern Styria deliberately steered his car against a lamppost on the L208 main road on Saturday. He told doctors in hospital two paramedics took money out […]
A growing number of Austrians see no sense in saving money due to less attractive interest rates, a survey has shown.Market and opinion research company IMAS said today (Mon) 41 per cent of Austrians considered saving money as “very important”, down by eight per cent year on year.IMAS also found that Austrians save an average […]
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 […]
A have-a-go tobacconist scared off an armed robber by throwing a pack of cigarettes straight into his face, yesterday (Weds).Graz police said the 56-year-old shop owner did not hesitate when the robber demanded money from him at gunpoint and chucked the pack of Gauloises straight into the gunmans face.The would-be robber and his accomplice waiting […]
A young Romanian scholar is fighting for his life and needs help to raise money for a second lung transplant five years after a first transplant at Vienna General Hospital (AKH).Titu Anghel, 30, needs 40,000 Euros of a total of 70,000 Euros in order to be put on the waiting list for a new transplant. […]
A robber armed with a pistol fled on a bicycle after robbing a petrol station in Linz, Upper Austria, police said today (Mon).The man entered the station shortly after midnight and demanded money, which he put into a plastic sack before fleeing.Police said the robber was in his early 20s, 1.85 metres tall and thin. […]