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RBI CEO under Suspicion of Prosecution against Corruption
Published: Yesterday; 11:42 · (FriedlNews)
Karl Sevelda, CEO of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), is suspected of having sold company’s shares of a commodity trader below their value. The prosecution in Vienna is now searching Sevelda’s office.
“This suspicion is completely unfounded,” RBI announced after its CEO’s office was searched by the prosecution of Vienna. The reason for the investigation is the selling of family-owned commodity trader DCM Decometal, which is suspected of having been sold below the actual value, a spokesman of the Public Prosecutor's Office against Corruption (Korruptionsstaatsanwaltschaft - KStA) said. From 1998 to 2011 Sevelda was chairman of the Herbert Depisch Foundation, the holder of the commodity trader.
During a raid the offices of Selvelda and three other persons at different locations were searched on Monday, according to the KStA’s spokesman.
“Since at the time related to the anonymous accusations I had neither a function on the Herbert Depisch private foundation's board nor on the RBI management board, the suspicion is unfounded," Sevelda said in a statement emailed by the bank. "There is a well-founded suspicion, otherwise we would not have taken this action," KstA’s spokesman said adding that documents and electronic data were confiscated from Sevelda’s office and will now be examined. He pointed out that the incidents occurred last year.
The bank itself is not under suspicion. Sevelda has assumed office in June this year after his predecessor Herbert Stepic stepped back because of a scandal over private offshore property deals.