Peter
Pirker, a retired Austrian journalist went missing at the end of May this year
and is presumed dead by the police who think he may have committed suicide
after being hit hard by a Nigerian scam while his relatives think he may be
trying to track down the cash.
Peter
Pirker is the former head of the ORF regional news studio in Carinthia,
Austria. The retired journalist was apparently reported missing on May 22.
According to police there are no clues to his current whereabouts and he has
not been seen since that date. Police have now released a statement to say they
believe that Pirker may be dead.
They show
potential victims a trunk full of the notes and convince them that should they
buy the chemicals, they will then get a share of the booty.
In
Pirker's case, he apparently flew to Paris last year to watch a demonstration
of the so-called "money cleaning machine," was convinced by the con
and then sold his home in Carinthia to be able to send a large amount of money
to the criminals in Nigeria. He reportedly also sold his mother's apartment in
Caritas-Franziskusheim in Klagenfurt - Luise Isabella Pirker had apparently
passed away at the age of 94 in mid-January. A cottage on Lake Ossiach was also
apparently sold to raise money for the Nigerian scam.
By the
time Pirker disappeared from Vienna, on the day before his 70th birthday, he
had been declared bankrupt. His relatives theorize that Pirker may have left to
travel to Nigeria to try and track down what had happened to all his money.
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