KOHN ASSETS FROZEN IN MADOFF INTRODUCTION CASE
January 1st, 2012
BY LEAH GERMAIN
A FORMER business associate of New York fraudster, Bernie Madoff, has had her assets frozen by the UK High Court while an investigation over her possible connection to the infamous Ponzi-scheme fraudster is considered.
Sonja Kohn, once the chairwoman of Austria's Bank Medici AG, is accused of introducing new investors to Madoff and receiving at least US dollars USD56 million in return. Madoff was charged in 2009 for a defrauding investors out of USD80 billion.
In December 2010, the official US-based liquidator, Irving Picard, sued Kohn along ...
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