Investment fraud in the billions according to § 264 StGB

The Stuttgart public prosecutor’s office, white-collar crime division, evaluates the deception of investors by misleading yield information according to the internal rate of return method, also known as IRR yield, as an objective fact of investment fraud according to § 264 a StGB. The opinion was first published in February 2005. More and more investors […]

Investment fraud in the billions

in accordance with § 264 a of the German Criminal Code (Strafgesetzbuch) Deception of investors by means of false yield information*. *by Johannes Fiala, M.B.A., lawyer (www. fiala.de), partner in the law firm Fiala, Freiesleben & Weber (lawyers and patent attorneys, tax consultants & auditors), business economist, bank clerk, certified financial and investment advisor (A.F.A.), […]

Betriebliche Altersversorgung – Facts&Fiction: Support fund – Investment fraud with built-in employer liability ?

*by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Lecturer (Univ. of Cooperative Education), Banker (www.fiala.de ) and Dipl.-Math. Peter A. Schramm, Actuary DAV (Diethardt), Actuarial Expert (www.pkv-gutachter.de ) “Smile and be happy, it could be worse!” And I laughed and was glad – […]

Investment fraud in the billions, investor deception through false yield information

by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), M.B.A. (Univ.Wales), M.M. (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Banker (www.fiala.de ) The Stuttgart public prosecutor’s office, white-collar crime division, assesses investor deception through misleading yield information according to the internal rate of return method, also known as IRR yield, as an objective offence of capital […]

Insurance mediation as commercial fraud

– How clueless facilitators and training managers go straight to jail instead of through LOS -.   On 05.11.2014, the Central Criminal Investigation Service Lüneburg arrested two insurance brokers for commercial fraud. The intermediaries induced their customers to terminate existing annuity and life insurance policies in order to subsequently take out new insurance policies that […]

Reversal of dangerous combined transactions: Revocation of credit-financed capital investments

– New ruling of the Federal Court of Justice facilitates the discharge of loan debts – It is part of everyday life at credit institutions to make even larger capital investments possible for the customer by making a large part of the necessary money for an investment available to him as a loan. As a […]

Lawyer for investment law in Munich

Investment law: Ask at the right time The investor protector Heinz Gerlach (*1945, +2010) once said that the typical investor at the regulars’ table only has three questions: First question: The investor waves various prospectus documents and asks “Is that something?”Second question: “And what’s the best?”Third question (usually after months or years): “What is the […]

Training liability in insurance, capital investment and bank sales

Why training and sales managers are personally liable in private health insurance sales. An analysis by attorney Dr. Johannes Fiala and mathematician Peter A. Schramm.   Landauf Landab insurance brokers, independent financial service providers and bank advisors complain that at sales events held by trainers, they actually only experience positive product features through colourful pictures, […]

Interest fraud with system

How banks and credit institutions earn money with incorrect interest calculations We Germans are known beyond our national borders for our preference for cash and savings books. In a European comparison, we are the undisputed number one with a savings rate of approx. 17 %. Our confidence in saving seems to be unshakable and despite […]

LV from Liechtenstein: a planned tax fraud?

What intermediaries, especially insurance brokers, should watch out for Broker advisors and insurance intermediaries often ask themselves whether brokering life insurance policies from Liechtenstein is perhaps already tax fraud? After all, foreign insurers would love to claim that no taxes were involved. And wouldn’t this be as dangerous as moving supposedly “tax-neutral” money into or […]