Felix Vossen
Felix Burghardt Vossen (born April 11, 1974 in Gütersloh ) is a German financial entrepreneur , film producer and convicted fraudster.
Life
Felix Vossen is one of four children of the last owner of the Vossen terry cloth weaving mill , Norbert Vossen, and the grandson of the company founder Burghard Vossen . He first grew up in Gütersloh and then went to the Swiss Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz near St. Moritz until secondary school . After a stopover in Spain, where he traded in Apple computers , he moved to Great Britain , completed his Abitur at Oxford and then lived in a small apartment in London . There he discovered day trading, which was emerging in the mid-1990s, and ran high-speed trading in technology stocks on Wall Street .
In 2008 he founded VCP Asset Management AG in Zurich, where he also had his residence, and VCP Analytics GmbH a year later . One of his offices was in the Bellevue building on Lake Zurich .
In 2010 he helped found the film company Embargo Films in London with Barnaby Southcombe and Christopher Simon , which produced several films with directors such as John Boorman and Nick Love and actors such as Charlotte Rampling , Gabriel Byrne , Eddie Marsan , Richard Coyle , Bronson Webb , Ray Winstone , Zlatko Burić et al. a. produced.
He was last seen in Zurich on March 3, 2015. He was then wanted by the FBI , Scotland Yard and Swiss authorities . He was initially accused of having cheated investors out of 60 million euros . He was arrested in Valencia in mid-February 2016 and extradited to Switzerland on April 13, 2016. In July 2017, the Zurich III public prosecutor's office responsible for economic crimes brought charges against him for commercial fraud and money laundering as well as for multiple falsification of documents . He had "deceived 30 victims and thus achieved around 20 million British pounds , 5.8 million euros and 7.5 million US dollars ".
In Zurich, Vossen was found guilty of fraud, money laundering and forgery on November 22, 2017 and sentenced to six years in prison.
Filmography
- 2012: I, Anna
- 2012: Me and Me Dad (co-producer)
- 2012: The Sweeney
- 2012: Pusher
- 2013: Mr. May and the Whispers of Eternity
- 2015: The Man from the Council
Web links
- Felix Vossen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Felix Vossen at filmportal.de
- The talented Mr. Vossen. A story about trust and friendship, lies and deceit , NDR podcast by Christoph Heinzle, 2016
- Patrick Menzel: A nervous look is Felix Vossen's undoing. In: New Westphalian. June 3, 2016, accessed January 26, 2019 .
- Patrick Menzel: Fraud and money laundering: Felix Vossen has to go to court. In: New Westphalian. July 6, 2016, accessed January 26, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christoph Heinzle: Six years imprisonment for fraudster Felix Vossen. November 22, 2017, archived from the original on November 23, 2017 ; accessed on January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Stefanie Bolzen, Simone Rau: The man who disappeared without a trace with 60 million. In: Welt am Sonntag . December 9, 2015, accessed January 26, 2019 .
- ^ Embargo Films website, accessed October 28, 2017
- ↑ Jens Ostrowski: Textile company distances itself from Felix Vossen who has disappeared. In: New Westphalian . October 27, 2015, accessed January 26, 2019 .
- ↑ IMDB on Felix Burghardt Vossen, accessed on October 27, 2017
- ↑ Patrick Menzel: Public Prosecutor calls for almost seven years in prison for Felix Vossen. In: New Westphalian . July 13, 2017, accessed January 26, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vossen, Felix |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vossen, Felix Burghardt (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German financial entrepreneur, film producer and convicted fraudster |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gutersloh |