Werner Rey

Kurt Werner Rey ( born October 6, 1943 in Zurich ) is a Swiss financier and businessman, who was accused of professional securities fraud, forgery and fraudulent bankruptcy.

Rey became famous when he in 1976 through the purchase and subsequent sale of the CF Bally AG to Oerlikon Buehrle Holding a profit of about 30 million Swiss francs achieved and built a financial empire with his company Omni Holding AG. This was followed by, among others, in 1986, the temporary employment agency Adia interim, now part of Adecco, brought Inspectorate on the stock exchange, acquired the Jean- Frey- group metal works Selve AG in Thun and 30 percent of Sulzer. Rey was in this period as a Swiss Vorzeigefinancier and was hailed as a financial genius. But in 1990 there were more threatening signs of serious economic difficulties; In 1991 the corner. After a process was opened for fraud, forgery and fraudulent bankruptcy, he fled to the Bahamas, where he was arrested in 1996. Subsequently, the investigating judge in Bern erwirkten together with the competent federal authority extradition Reys in Switzerland.

1998, the process it was made and for any kind of misconduct to the detriment of Kantonalbank of Bern on the IPO of Inspectorate and for fraudulent bankruptcy, because he and his own wealth to the detriment of creditors -. Whether sham or in good faith could not be resolved - had reduced Accordingly, the pronounced sentence of four years in prison, were significantly below those required by prosecutor ten years. Other methods for professional securities fraud, forgery and fraudulent bankruptcy are barred in 2007. The pending cases were repealed. Rey held the judiciary for years in breathing and owes the Canton of Bern alone on court costs around 4.3 million francs.

Since 2000, Werner K. Rey lives in London.