Delusions of grandeur in the video

Gusenbauer: “We are building the good houses”

Gusenbauer once spoke full-bodied at the Signa luxury party - and now.(Bild: zVg Krone KREATIV)

When it had long been clear that Benko was slipping into massive problems, ex-SPÖ Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer gave his "Signa family" slogans of perseverance in December 2022. Today, building skeletons stand as memorials in Vienna and German cities. Krone+ shows the bizarre video of megalomania at a party where it was like the movie "Wolf of Wall Street".

In December 2022, René Benko's Signa house of cards was already in a precarious situation: funds were running low and dividend payments had to be deferred. One year later, Signa's core companies were to file the largest insolvencies in Austrian economic history. Signa was over-indebted by several billion.