Overview
- The court set a Jan. 15 hearing for new witnesses, including Eugen Block’s longtime secretary, a bank employee, a company officer of the Block Group, and a police investigator.
- Prosecutors recently questioned the woman known as “Doris White” on Jan. 8 and 12, lifted the search for her, and granted safe conduct, and she may be called as a witness.
- Crown witness David Barkay testified that the family’s lawyer handed roughly €200,000 in cash to the operatives, a claim the co‑defendant lawyer has not addressed in court.
- Hotel records and testimony describe months of unpaid stays under aliases at the Block Group’s Grand Elysée, with estimated losses of at least about €200,000 and a judicial warning that the lawyer could face an embezzlement conviction.
- The bank employee is tied to a branch where Eugen Block’s late wife held an account, a detail the court is exploring as it examines how the alleged operation was financed.