Insolvency scandal: ex-signa boss Manuel Pirolt in court!

Insolvency scandal: ex-signa boss Manuel Pirolt in court!

In a dramatic turn in the insolvency scandal of the Signa Group, a bankruptcy proceedings against Manuel Pirolt opened on Wednesday. The former board of the Signa Development and the Signa Prime as well as the Laura Private Foundation by René Benko and his mother Ingeborg are at the center of this legal dispute after a creditor submitted the Vienna Commercial Court. According to information from Vol.at there is still pirolt in the fact that are connected to the Signa and the private foundation.

It is particularly explosive that this procedure is not a private bankruptcy, but an insolvency proceedings that opened as a management consultant due to his entrepreneurial work, as Jürgen Gebauer from KSV 1870 explains. This raises questions about his liabilities that are not yet known. The Signa Prime insolvency administrator has also tightened the claims towards former board members, including Pirolt, and blames them for damage of around one billion euros. Those affected were asked to "recognize their liability" by January 20, 2025, according to the statement of KleineZeitung.at .

Details
OrtWien, Österreich
Quellen