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Sunday 05 July 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 9:12 am

Fund head probed over Madoff

By: admindrupal

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Former Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn is being investigated by US, UK and Austrian prosecutors who believe she was paid over $40m (£25.5m) in kickbacks for ferrying funds to fraudster Bernard Madoff. They believe she was paid off while chairman of Austria’s Bank Medici, via separate firms she ran.

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