{"id":67660,"date":"2017-02-21T06:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T04:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/?p=67660"},"modified":"2024-10-22T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:56:21","slug":"lhr-obtains-judgment-before-munich-regional-court-i-well-known-business-magazine-may-no-longer-publish-unfounded-suspicions-of-investment-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/magazine-en\/lhr-obtains-judgment-before-munich-regional-court-i-well-known-business-magazine-may-no-longer-publish-unfounded-suspicions-of-investment-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"LHR obtains judgment before Munich Regional Court I: Well-known business magazine may no longer publish unfounded suspicions of investment fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27377\" style=\"width: 424px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27377 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/fakenews.jpg\" alt=\"Verdachtsberichterstattung Anlagebetrug\" width=\"424\" height=\"283\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 alswart \u2013 Fotolia.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>The Regional Court of Munich I (LG M\u00fcnchen, Urteil v. 26.10.2016, Az. <a href=\"https:\/\/dejure.org\/dienste\/vernetzung\/rechtsprechung?Text=9%20O%209411\/16\" title=\"LG M&uuml;nchen I, 26.10.2016 - 9 O 9411\/16: Bekanntes Wirtschaftsmagazin darf haltlosen Verdacht au...\">9 O 9411\/16<\/a>, nicht rechtskr\u00e4ftig) has ordered a well-known business magazine to cease and desist from disseminating a suspected case of \u201cinvestment fraud\u201d in response to the action brought by Lampmann, Haberkamm &amp; Rosenbaum Rechtsanw\u00e4lte (LHR).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This prohibits the publication from making the inaccurate claim about a fund company that the public prosecutor&#8217;s office is investigating its managers for \u201cinvestment fraud\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of non-compliance, a fine of up to \u20ac250,000 or up to six months&#8217; imprisonment may be imposed. The magazine can either allow the conviction to become final or appeal to the Munich Higher Regional Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Munich I Regional Court agreed with our client that the completely unfounded allegations of fraud &#8211; apart from the fact that \u201cinvestment fraud\u201d as such does not exist anyway &#8211; interfered with the entrepreneur&#8217;s right of personality or their established and exercised business operations and were therefore to be refrained from.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the claim for injunctive relief, there are also claims for damages, which the issuing house will assert in separate proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/kanzlei\/team\/a-lampmann\/\">Arno Lampmann<\/a> from the law firm LHR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe case shows that even major news magazines are often completely wrong. In the name of consumer protection, there is of course nothing wrong with factually justified criticism, especially in the sensitive area of investment, even if negative reporting can have serious consequences for companies. For this very reason, however, inadequate research and untrue claims must be stopped at all costs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Court of Munich I (LG M\u00fcnchen, Urteil v. 26.10.2016, Az. 9 O 9411\/16, nicht rechtskr\u00e4ftig) has ordered a well-known business magazine to cease and desist from disseminating a suspected case of \u201cinvestment fraud\u201d in response to the action brought by Lampmann, Haberkamm &amp; Rosenbaum Rechtsanw\u00e4lte (LHR). This prohibits the publication from making the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19449,19453,19474],"tags":[20306,20307],"class_list":["post-67660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine-en","category-media-law-personal-rights","category-press-releases","tag-allegations-of-fraud","tag-credit-risk"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67664,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67660\/revisions\/67664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}