“Super-rich shell players”: Real estate mogul Benko is examined by the U-Committee. Benko's now largely insolvent empire received 18.7 million euros from the Cofag agency responsible for the Corona aid fund.
A large part of it went to the Kika/Leiner Group, which received 91 million euros between 2020 and 2023. According to the Kronen-Zeitung, there are indications that Benko only took over the group in 2018 because he was concerned with the real estate, but not to secure 5,000 jobs.