Mehmet Göker

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Mehmet Ercan Göker (born April 2, 1979 in Kassel ) is a German-Turkish entrepreneur who founded the Kassel company MEG in April 2003 . The company was taken over by Aragon AG in 2009, and after a short time insolvency proceedings were opened against their assets.

job

Göker trained as an insurance salesman at DKV . In 2003 he founded the sole proprietorship MEG Insurance Specialist e. K. for brokerage with insurance and building society contracts . Early on he worked with independent brokers, at the end of 2005 MEG e. K. 40 employees. In 2006 he founded MEG AG, at the end of the year the company had 150 employees. On August 21, 2014, the press announced that Göker is again active on the German insurance market.

Charges and trials

In September 2007 there was a raid on MEG AG and investigations into suspected tax evasion and withholding contributions against Göker. At the beginning of August 2008, this led to Göker being sentenced to a fine of 720,000 euros in daily rates. The suspicion that Göker had not paid any social security contributions for his pseudo self-employed insurance brokers was confirmed before the Kassel district court and extensive back payments had to be made. In November 2009, the public prosecutor's office investigated Göker on suspicion of breach of trust and delaying bankruptcy. In February 2010 there were investigations into the disclosure of trade secrets by the Kassel public prosecutor's office. In November 2010, 17 offices and apartments were searched. There was a suspicion that Göker was still selling private health insurance through so-called straw men . Göker is said to have done this on the basis of the MEG's earlier data records, which contain the addresses of potential prospects and regular customers. The Kassel public prosecutor's office suspected that Göker had wrongly appropriated these data sets after the MEG bankruptcy in order to be able to continue doing business with them. This constitutes a violation of the law against unfair competition and the offense of the delay in bankruptcy.

The ex-boss of MEG AG had to pay back 125,000 euros to Allianz health insurance on December 22, 2010. These were advances or commissions that Allianz AG had paid MEG AG in advance for future contracts that were ultimately not achieved.

Göker had to answer again in court on May 31, 2011. The public prosecutor's office accused Göker of infidelity , since an organizational director of the MEG is said to have received commission payments of 20,500 euros in cash. Göker should have passed the money on to MEG or the later insolvency administrator, which, according to the indictment, did not take place. In September 2011 he was sentenced to a suspended sentence of six months in absentia. Göker appealed against the judgment at first instance appeal a. These proceedings were dropped in September 2012 as a far more serious charge of illicit trade in records was to be brought instead.

In February 2012, the Kassel public prosecutor brought charges of commercial fraud . Göker was accused of having arbitrarily paid excessive or low salaries to an employee and his wife due to bankruptcy in order to circumvent their attachment. The salaries were therefore no longer available to the bankruptcy estate and thus to the creditors.

From November 2012 to the end of May 2013, the former general representative of MEG and Deputy Gökers, Vincent Ho, was in custody in Kassel-Wehlheiden prison . The public prosecutor's office accuses him of fraud, betrayal of trade and business secrets and the removal of business data. He is said to have committed the latter together with the former MEG boss. An arrest warrant in Germany and an international arrest warrant still exist against Göker himself . In March 2013, searches of Göker's former business partners were carried out nationwide. At the end of April 2013, the Kassel public prosecutor brought charges on suspicion of commercial betrayal of trade and business secrets and of violating the Federal Data Protection Act .

At the end of February 2015, the insurer AXA demanded from Göker 2.6 out of a total of 3.1 million euros in advances before the Kassel regional court. The company invokes the brokerage liability claim against the former managing director of MEG AG.

The international arrest warrant against Göker is not enforceable because there is no extradition agreement with Turkey - to which Göker has fled . The main hearing began on March 8, 2018 at the Kassel Regional Court , where Göker's lawyer announced that his client would not appear.

Film / book

The film Versicherungsvertreter - The Amazing Career of Mehmet Göker premiered on October 19, 2011 at the International Documentary Film Festival in Leipzig . The documentary was shot by the Kassel filmmaker Klaus Stern . The film premiered on November 8, 2011 in Kassel. The Gloria-Kino showed the documentary about Mehmet Göker as a prelude to the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival . On November 20, Göker himself appeared in the Bali cinema to see the film.

In 2015 insurance agent 2 - Mehmet Göker continues to appear, who deals with his activities from Turkey. In the same year he published his autobiography The Madness Career of Mehmet E. Göker , written with the journalist Christian Schommers.

Sponsorship

When Göker headed MEG (later MEG24 / MEG AG), the company acted as a sponsor of several sports clubs and individual athletes.

KSV Hessen Kassel

The most extensive sponsorship took place at the Kassel football club KSV Hessen Kassel . He provided jerseys, rented buses and six-figure monetary donations. On June 9, 2008, Göker gave his promise to become the new CEO of KSV Hessen Kassel after the contract with the previous boss Marc Arnold had been terminated . This moved to Braunschweig . On June 16, 2008 at the annual general meeting of KSV Hessen Kassel, he withdrew his commitment. He justified this decision with the fact that he had been exposed to bad abuse, which is said to have also reached his family. Quote from Mehmet E. Göker from June 16, 2008: "I am no longer available for any office at KSV". Shortly afterwards the board of the KSV Hessen Kassel ended the sponsoring with the MEG AG with immediate effect. This was done to restore the association's credibility.

BG / MEG Göttingen

In March 2009, Mehmet Göker secured the naming rights of the Göttingen national basketball division MEG Göttingen through a sponsorship agreement . After initially showing no interest, Göker finally decided on sponsorship. He said: “The Göttingen basketball has developed so well that MEG can now identify with it very well.” In September 2009 the sponsorship and thus the naming ended. The association was then again called BG Göttingen.

VfB Süsterfeld

In 2008 Mehmet Göker became chairman of the VfB Süsterfeld sports club . Furthermore, other positions on the board of the association were filled with executive employees of MEG AG. In addition, MEG AG became the sole main sponsor. At that time, the association had no idea that the CEO and sole financier would lose his company a year later and no longer provide any money. After Göker ceased to be the sponsor, VfB had to file for bankruptcy. The application for insolvency was rejected by the Kassel District Court in December 2010 on the grounds that the association's assets were not even enough to cover the costs of the proceedings. The former press spokesman for the association, Frank Dietrich, said about the case: “As far as I know, the debts amount to at least 300,000 euros”. The association was about to be dissolved. In addition, investigative proceedings were initiated against members of the former association's board of directors. You are accused of tax evasion and withholding contributions by the Kassel public prosecutor's office.

Documentation

Netflix Documentation: The Insurance Agents & The Insurance Agents 2

literature

  • Christian Schommers, Mehmet Göker: The insane career of Mehmet E. Göker: From migrant child to millionaire - rise, fall and comeback of the power seller. FinanzBook Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-89879-886-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e On request, insurers pay millions on handelsblatt.com, accessed on June 14, 2012
  2. ↑ In 2009 MEG AG had almost 1400 employees with an annual turnover of over 70 million euros. In 2008 Göker received the 2008 Entrepreneurship Award from the German Sales and Trainer Association.
  3. ↑ Ozan Demircan: Ex-Insurance Broker: Mehmet Göker is back! at www.handelsblatt.com , August 21, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2014
  4. ↑ Mehmet Göker: Now he is threatened with prison . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , September 7, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2013.
  5. ^ Accusation of "commercial fraud": New charges against Mehmet Göker on hna.de
  6. ↑ Göker's right hand remains in prison on hna.de.
  7. ↑ Göker customers: Police searched offices on hna.de.
  8. ↑ Mehmet Göker: Charges for illegal data trade on hna.de.
  9. ↑ Axa demands 2.6 million euros from Mehmet Göker on dasinvestment.com, February 24, 2015
  10. ↑ Göker trial: admission of the indictment at the regional court unclear on hna.de, February 19, 2014
  11. ↑ No trial in Kassel against Mehmet Göker? on hna.de, January 15, 2015
  12. ↑ FAZ.net: Affront in court - Mehmet Göker does not come to the trial
  13. ↑ Göker is coming to the cinema on hna.de on October 19, 2011 , accessed on June 14, 2012
  14. ↑ Göker about Göker-Film: "Greed eats the brain" fits on hna.de , accessed on June 14, 2012
  15. ↑ KSV: Göker with MEG no longer main sponsor . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , July 2nd, 2008, here on the website of KSV Hessen Kassel e. V.
  16. ↑ After MEG bankruptcy: VfB Süsterfeld insolvency rejected - preliminary investigation against ex-club leadership . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine , December 17, 2010, accessed on May 11, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Göker, Mehmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göker, Mehmet Ercan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 2nd 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Kassel , Hessen, Germany