Richard Steiner

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Richard Steiner (born Vladimir Barišić on October 27, 1970 in Zagreb , Croatia ) is an Austrian entrepreneur, author and publisher. He is General Director of Exakt Spirits Ltd. and major shareholder of EXAKT Vodka Holding AG. He is a polyglot , vegan, stoic, and practicing Buddhist. Steiner became known through the largest and most expensive police operation in Austrian history and the largest mafia trial that followed.

Life

Steiner grew up in Croatia, where he suffered a serious head injury from a bicycle accident at the age of three, which damaged the prefrontal cortex . Since then he should not have felt any more fear. This accident is said to have shaped the rest of his life, which was marked by the Foreign Legion , combat deployment in the Croatian war including wounds and later, brutal acts of violence in the milieu. In 1995, after reading Dostoevsky in a Brazilian prison , Steiner converted to a Buddhist and became a vegan.

In autumn 1996 Steiner took over the command in the Viennese underworld and participated in numerous red light bars. In the next 13 years under Steiner's leadership, there were neither drug deaths nor violent deaths in the milieu, according to media reports, because he was able to enforce a "ban" on weapons and drugs. Steiner called a troop called “Free Vienna” (also referred to by the media as the “Nokia Club”), which consisted mainly of boxers and wrestlers, to protect the underworld from foreign gangs and illegal acts. The police accused Steiner of extorting protection money and of having built a state within the state. In 1999 Steiner survived a spinal column penetration, according to the doctors and his own statements, as the first person in medical history without any consequential health damage.

On Easter Sunday 2010, Steiner was arrested at Munich Airport, transferred to Vienna and taken into custody. The Vienna Public Prosecutor's Office failed to bring charges within two years and had to dismiss Steiner based on the provision under Section 178 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

The so-called monster trial took place from May to October 2013 , in which 100 witnesses were summoned. Richard Steiner was acquitted on all counts - with the exception of tax evasion and property damage. Steiner was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for tax evasion, but was released because he had been conditionally looked after for a year and his two years in custody were taken into account.

Since the end of 2012, Steiner has been the general director of Exakt Spirits Ltd. the Exact Vodka , the first organic vodka worldwide, which is prepared from Austrian ingredients and Austrian Alps water.

On October 30, 2014, Steiner and his co-author Peter Pokorny presented his biography "Richard Steiner - A Man of Honor: From Red Light King to Buddhist" which became a bestseller in Austria. The second edition was supplemented and published on December 20, 2014. As can be seen from the book, negotiations are currently underway with well-known European directors and film producers regarding film rights.

He has been married to Olga, a Russian doctor and cosmetic surgeon, since autumn 2014 and has adopted children in the Dominican Republic.

literature

• Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor: From the red king to the Buddhist. Raven Verlag, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047610-5 .
• Günther Fener: Lower Austria: Everything about Austria's underworld. Ecowin, Salzburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902404-70-1 .

Web links

• youtube.com
• oe24.at
• oe24.at
• kurier.at
• kurier.at
• kurier.at
• kurier.at
• derstandard.at
• diepresse.com
• heute.at
• news.at
• wien.orf.at
• kripo.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist. P. 18.
2. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist. P. 153.
3. ↑ berliner-kurier.de
4. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist.
5. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist. P. 15.
6. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist.
7. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist.
8. ↑ archiv.vegan.at ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist. P. 225.
10. ↑ kurier.at
11. ↑ krone.at
12. ↑ heute.at
13. ↑ youtube.com
14. ↑ Richard Steiner, Peter Pokorny: A man of honor. From the red light king to the Buddhist. P. 5.
15. ↑ berliner-kurier.de
16. ↑ archiv.vegan.at ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.