Alexander Falk (entrepreneur, 1969)

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Alexander Falk (born July 25, 1969 ) is a German entrepreneur . He was convicted in 2008 of attempted joint fraud and falsification of accounts and in 2020 for inciting dangerous bodily harm.

Life

Alexander Falk, son of Falk's city map publisher Gerhard Falk (1922–1978) and his second wife Evelyn, grew up in Hamburg-Blankenese , where he passed his Abitur in 1989. In 1996, Alexander Falk and his sister Janina sold their inherited shares in Kartografie - Verlag Falk for 50 million DM to Bertelsmann AG . With his share of the sales proceeds, Alexander Falk then founded and bought several companies in the new economy .

At first, Falk was considered a successful internet entrepreneur. At the end of 2000 he sold his company ISION to the British company Energis for 812 million euros . A short time later, Energis was insolvent and filed a lawsuit against Falk. He was accused of having artificially increased the value of ISION by falsifying the balance sheet in order to achieve an unrealistically high sales price. Falk denied any guilt. The co-defendant CFO admitted bogus sales, but in his opinion they had no influence on the sales price.

The case was heard from December 2004 to May 2008 at the Hamburg Regional Court . From June 6, 2003 to April 22, 2005, Alexander Falk was in custody , while the securities trading and investment bank Hornblower Fischer AG , of which Falk was the majority shareholder , had to file for insolvency in July 2003 as a result of the investigations . Four former ISION managers were charged together with Falk. They were accused of fraud in a particularly serious case, price manipulation and tax evasion . The time-consuming process (157 days of trial and 75 witnesses) led to Falks being sentenced in May 2008 to four years imprisonment for attempted joint fraud and falsification of accounts. The revision of the defense against that judgment before the Federal High Court had no success, making it legally binding. After serving two thirds of his prison sentence, Alexander Falk was released from the Glasmoor prison on August 12, 2011 .

In September 2012, Falk was sentenced in the first instance of civil proceedings to pay 209 million euros in damages to Energis' insolvency administration .

On September 4, 2018, it became known that Alexander Falk had been arrested in Hamburg-Altona on the basis of an arrest warrant from the Frankfurt am Main district court . This was justified with the suspicion of attempted incitement to murder. The victim is a Frankfurt lawyer who was shot in the leg by an unknown person on January 7, 2010. The lawyer was dealing with a civil lawsuit against Falk, which involved millions in damages in connection with the Ision sale. In December 2018, German media reported that the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office had now brought charges against Falk for attempted incitement to murder and incitement to dangerous bodily harm. The jury trial began in August 2019. The main witness was Etem E. as a key witness, who is no longer part of the witness protection program. On July 9, 2020, the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court sentenced Falk to four and a half years in prison for inciting dangerous bodily harm.

literature

  • Sandra Willmeroth: The 800 million jackpot. Alexander Falk and the Distefora case. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-280-05131-2 . (Note: An injunction has been brought against Orell Füssli publishing house in Switzerland; distribution of the book is prohibited there).
  • Corinna Budras: Alexander Falk and the killer squad. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from October 13, 2019, p. 23.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Defendant in the Falk trial admits to bogus sales. ( Memento from February 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) netzeitung.de, February 16, 2005.
  2. ↑ Falk brings the bank to its knees. manager-magazin.de, July 24, 2003.
  3. ↑ publishing heir Alexander Falk has four years in prison ( Memento of 20 October 2009 at the Internet Archive ) sueddeutsche.de, 9th May, 2008.
  4. ↑ City map-Erbe Falk free. bild.de, August 13, 2011.
  5. ↑ Alexander Falk has to pay 209 million euros ( Memento from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . On: ftd.de, September 20, 2012.
  6. ↑ 100,000 euro reward - shots at Attorney: Only cool tracks by "XY" faz.net, 7 October 2010
  7. ↑ Annette Langer: Alexander Falk arrested for alleged incitement to homicide. In: Spiegel Online. September 4, 2018, accessed September 4, 2018 .
  8. ^ Indictment against Alexander Falk. sueddeutsche.de, on December 20, 2018
  9. ↑ “I absolutely trust Mr. Falk to incite murder”. FAZ of September 12, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Your boys are no good". Spiegel Online on November 12, 2019.
  11. ^ Frankfurt Regional Court: Four and a half years imprisonment for the city heir Falk. Hessenschau.de
personal data
SURNAME Falk, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and publishing heir
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg