The car rental companies Dexcar is for information of SZ and WDR under suspicion, to have tens of thousands of motorists in the whole of Europe for your money bruised. The company promised the customer “to drive the quasi-free 24 months a new car.” Many customers have been waiting for years on the vehicles for which you have already paid. the From Uwe Ritzer and Ulrike Sauer, Rome

In Germany, determined the main office of the public Prosecutor for economic crime in Bochum against Dexcar-Responsible, according to information from the süddeutsche Zeitung and CTR, among other things, due to suspicion of fraud. According to a authorities spokesperson, a large number of customers are affected “” in the whole Federal territory. Also in Austria and Italy under investigation and the antitrust authority in Rome imposed already a penalty of 400 000 euros against the company denies all the allegations. It has vacated its headquarters in Essen, in the meantime, and operates the shops of Belarus, mainly on the Internet.

Dexcar offers car drivers to drive for a relatively low one-time payment of between several hundred and a few thousand euros, as well as after a waiting period of a maximum of two years, a new car for 24 months. Other costs, such as those for comprehensive insurance, or maintenance, would not apply. On the Internet, professionally-made Video commercials, the shiny luxury cars in front of the castle scenes of the show, and delighted visitors of Dexcar events, applaud the managers of the company.

“This is not a prohibited pyramid system, pure fraud,”

The System works but obviously. A former Dexcar-mediator claims to SZ/WDR information in a criminal complaint against companies responsible, it is 40 to be ordered 000 cars, but only 500 have been delivered. Italian investigators even assume that less than one percent of the customers were actually her car.

Many customers are waiting for the part for years on the cars, for which you have already paid. Or your money back. The company denies all the allegations and sees itself as the victim of a smear campaign as its founder and managing Director, Mario Gai on request. Dexcar a particularly sophisticated System, with the order of the tables underlying the control of an algorithm.

The case is familiar, and Austrian consumer advocates Paul Rusching the System, however, for “mathematically completely impossible and economically.” On the basis of the location of a Dexcar-customer-seeker, he has, of all things, “that a rental car would cost the driver three cents per day. This can’t work.” The suspicion of the consumer protector: “This is a prohibited pyramid system, is pure fraud.”