American billionaire-actor Bernard Madoff himself became a victim of thieves

The organizer of the giant financial pyramid Bernard Madoff, accused of fraud with 50 billion dollars, himself became a victim of robbers. Unknown people made their way into his fashionable mansion in Florida and dragged a weighty sculpture estimated at 10 thousand dollars from the courtyard.

Police officers of the American state of Florida are searching for robbers who deprived the mansion of the "scammer of the century" of Bernard Madoff to his main attraction: a three -meter copper sculpture depicted two young guards sitting on a bench. The theft occurred in the sea resort Palm Beach after the owner of the mansion himself fell into the hands of the police, writes The New York Post .

Thieves penetrated the luxurious family mansion on Friday December 19, eight days after the arrest of Madoff himself, who is accused of millionth and fraudulent transactions.

According to the police, the original sculpture, which stood by the pool in the courtyard of the mansion, disappeared without a trace between the three hours of the night and 11:20 next day.

At the time of the theft of the sculpture, none of the inhabitants of the mansion was the house, which the attackers took advantage of. According to the housekeeper, she found the loss only the next day, when she came to work again.

The detectives are still lost in conjecture how the kidnappers managed to steal such a difficult monument without a single clue. “The investigation has no evidence or keys to unraveling (abduction),” Richard Sorzh commented on the investigation of the discouraged representative of the Palm Beach police.

Recall, the former chairman of the board of directors of the American Stock Exchange Nasdaq and influential financier Bernard Madoff was arrested in New York on December 11.

Now the 70-year-old financier is prescribed from 7 pm to 9 in the morning to be in their apartments in Manhattan. In addition, Madoff, whose frauds caused investors to damage $ 50 billion, will constantly wear a special electronic bracelet on their leg, which will signal its whereabouts.

The accusations against the suspect were made by the FBI and the Federal Commission on Securities and Exchanges. Madoff himself has already admitted fraud. He previously told his employees that his entire consulting business was only a financial pyramid.

After the arrest and charges of Madoff, by decision of the District Court, Manhattan was released on bail of $ 10 million. A solid amount was paid by the wife of the accused, who is the co-owner of their fashionable Manhattan apartment and the estate in Palm Beach worth $ 9.5 million.

The financier with Wall Street threatens to imprison the prison for up to 20 years.

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At the time of the arrest, Madoff headed Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities , which provided intermediary services to the participants in the stock market. According to the company itself, it controlled capital of over $ 17 billion.

Unusually high dividends on investment to equity holders who began to work with this unit earlier, were paid at the expense of the funds transferred to the companies later by other gullible investors.

Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities was one of 1% of the largest and most influential investment, consulting and brokerage companies in the United States operating in the market. She positioned itself as a company using "innovative technologies", with the help of which, since its creation in 1960, she demonstrated steady growth.

For decades, the swindler guaranteed his customers a high fixed income and paid it, attracting new investors.

However, no later than 2005, an influential financier, within the framework of this company, created a secret unit, which controlled the investment investors and funds.

Employees of other departments of the "main" company did not know about the existence of a secret unit. However, in the end, two influential employees of Madoff gave him testimony against him that allowed him to call him to answer.

The newspaper Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources, said that these "assistants of justice" were his own sons Andrew and Mark, who also worked in the company.

In the 1980s, Madoff was a member of the Nasdaq exchange board of directors, which mainly conducts trading shares of high-tech companies, and headed it. In the 1990s, he caused a sharp discontent to other "players" of the American stock market, which he deprived of part of the business. To do this, he developed a scheme according to which he paid brokerage companies in order for orders for the acquisition and sale of shares to pass through his company.

If the volume of Madoff’s scam is confirmed, the financial pyramid created by him will be recognized as the largest in the history of the United States.