Silvia Raggl EXPOSES Raiffeisen Bank Scandal

Raiffeisen marketing expert Sylvia Raggl is bringing the Rock Group Farewell Dead Ghost to Austria to present a special message.  A message that you'll have to buy expensive tickets to hear, from any of Sylvia's bank branches:  "Tickets bekommen Sie in jeder Bankstelle der Raiffeisenbank Im Rheintal über Ländle Ticket."  http://blogs.raiffeisen.at/vbg/rir/2016/02/29/dynamo-festival/

The message is simple:  "when we prowl around our neighbourhoods
we're not scared of the dark, we make it our own".  (Farewell Dear Ghost:Fire Lyrics, http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Farewell_Dear_Ghost:Fire)

Prowl means "to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal".  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prowl

RAIFFEISEN GOUGED BORROWERS

"Raiffeisen warned last month it expected its first annual loss in 2014 due to writedowns in Ukraine as non-performing loans (NPLs) mount and to Budapest's clawing back money from banks that it says gouged borrowers."  (Ukraine crisis spotlights risks for Austrian banks, Reuters, 2 Oct 2014)

RAIFFEISEN SWINDLED PEOPLE IN HUNGARY

Gouge means "to extort from, swindle, or overcharge."  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/gouge?s=t  And now they're telling the Austria public that they're prowling around -- looking for something to steal.  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prowl

Word has been getting around, and some Austrian customers were getting nervous about Raiffeisen.

RAIFFEISEN HAS A PLAN

"and we say, say, say: dance away the fear
'though we think a little darkness suits us well"
(Farewell Dear Ghost:Fire Lyrics, http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Farewell_Dear_Ghost:Fire)

Maybe if customers dance enough, they won't recognize the dangers of doing business with this predatory bank.  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prowl

"A LITTLE DARKNESS SUITS US WELL" 

"A series of corruption scandals revealing the close ties between politics and business has shaken Austria." (Walter Mayr, Corruption Scandals in Austria: A Web of Sleaze in Elegant Vienna, Spiegel Online International, 13 Oct 2011)(see Sylvia Raggl pictured at left)

Which is why Sylvia Raggl wants her customers to just dance their fears away. http://blogs.raiffeisen.at/vbg/rir/2016/02/29/dynamo-festival/  

Swindle means "to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets."  http://www.dictionary.com/browse/swindle?s=t 

TWO BILLION EURO FRAUD

And Sylvia Raggl's bank would actually do this sort of thing?  Well, they did in Hungary.   And they've been implicated money laundering on a massive scale:  "14 Konten bei der Bank Austria und RZB sollen für einen Betrug in Höhe von zwei Milliarden Euro genutzt worden sein." (Dienten heimische Banken der Mafia für Geldwäsche?, Die Presse, 7 Mar 2010)

Sylvia Raggl's bank has swindled all sorts of people:  Their employees even steal from customers in Russia, where one of them got "arrested for stealing money from bank card customers. He was taken red-handed on the night of March 4, when he took off from the account of one of its clients seven and a half thousand euros, according to "Fontanka"." (Raiffeisenbank employee arrested for stealing customer money, Newspepper.su, 5 Mar 2012, http://newspepper.su/news/2012/3/5/raiffeisenbank-employee-arrested-for-stealing-customer-money/)

So you can avoid this dangerous bank, or just dance your fears away.

The choice is up to you, but at least you've been warned.