Dubious company goes bankrupt (Swiss Press Text 2018, by Roger Probst) - Swiss Press Award
Thuner Tagblatt
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2018
Roger Probst
For years, shrewd businessman Laurent Helfrich lured unsuspecting investors. He wanted to extract oil from plastic and use the profits from this business to realize ambitious construction projects in the retirement living sector. His promises remained empty. The investors' money disappeared. Now Helfrich's complex corporate structure has collapsed like a house of cards.
