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He was the “Wunderwuzzi”, friend of scandalous Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and always in the headlines: This time, the Austrian real estate investor René Benko has problems that can no longer be solved with his charm. At the Signa Group, which he controls majority, money holes worth billions have opened up. If Benko doesn’t manage to plug it, an avalanche could begin that could end up affecting even small German savers. The most important questions about the crisis in Benko’s real estate and trading empire:

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