Founder of Signa Group, which owned stakes in Selfridges and the Chrysler Building, collapsed under weight of debts ...

Austrian tycoon Rene Benko has been charged with fraud as part of a wide-ranging probe into the insolvency of his real estate ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austrian prosecutors said on Tuesday they were bringing an insolvency-related fraud case against the former ...

Signa founder René Benko has been in pre-trial detention for months. Now, the Austrian Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s ...

VIENNA (Reuters) -Austrian prosecutors said on Tuesday they were bringing a fraud case relating to insolvency proceedings against the founder of the collapsed Signa property group Rene Benko. "The ...

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Fallen Austrian property tycoon Rene Benko appears before a parliamentary commission of inquiry looking into economic aid given to companies during the COVID-19 pandemic including those in his ...

The strife at property tycoon René Benko's empire is rippling through the debt markets, where bonds issued by one of his units have crashed to just a fraction of their face value. Benko's main ...

Rene Benko and George Economou are business partners. Benko is the largest property investor in Europe - founding his company at the age of 22, likely financed from family wealth.

As Rene Benko steps aside to allow a restructuring expert to sift through his sprawling real estate empire valued at €23 billion ($25 billion), his lenders are watching closely to see the impact ...

Rene Benko is pulling back from large parts of his retail empire as the Austrian real estate tycoon works to shore up his core business in landmark hotels and prime properties.