COMPANIES In 12 months Helmut Kiener has gone from an audience with Pope Benedict to facing allegations of being at the heart of a hedge fund fraud.
Part of the picture of the 50-year-old German that emerged this week, such as his lawyers’ recollection of the papal meeting, was of a respectable businessman living quietly in a leafy suburb of Aschaffenburg, a Bavarian town 40km east of Frankfurt.
