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A The 54,000 investors who have purchased an expedition container as an investment at P & R in recent years can not expect much of their efforts. Although the vendor has sold about 1.6 million "big cube container" type savers, in reality only 618,000 on the world's oceans are on the way, as has officially confirmed it. insolvency administrator Michael Jaffé.
The company has "clearly signed contracts with investors for many years about containers that never really existed and were not purchased," says Jaffé. The newly collected money was used by the company to pay rent promised to investors and redeem the containers.
In general, there is talk of a pyramid scheme in such a case. Jaffé sees at least the suspicion of fraud confirmed by his research. Investors had recently invested about 3.5 billion euros in containers.
Profits were in the predictable setting
The gap between appearance and being has widened more and more since 2007. At the time, P & R was considered the largest owner of marine containers in the world. The bankruptcy procedure was officially opened. The bustle of P & R proves to be more and more one of the most important scandals of German post-war history: the Göttingen, Prokon and S & G groups. K
. failed. Before tax, it was an expected return of five percent – after taxes, about three percent. This is not an order of magnitude that should have skeptical investors from the beginning.
The gray capital market tends to be attracted by returns that are twice or even three times higher. In addition, there have been no problems in the history of P & R for more than 40 years until the application for bankruptcy, rents and money for the redemption is still flowing. In February and March, P & R had transferred money. Then the contract opened because sales stagnated and liquidity was lacking.
Selling, then renting back and forth
The business model provided that the business sold new and used containers to investors and returned them directly to them. sublet. In the last offer a container would have cost 2720 euros. The rent per day was set at 0.81 euros.
The company, based in Grünwald near Munich, has offered investors the opportunity to buy back the containers after five years for a projected residual value of 65% of the initial participation.
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