Austrian police face investigation after escorting fake Jeff Bezos
If Jeff Bezos had turned up at your company’s biggest celebration of the year, you would probably know about it. […]
Austrian police officers who escorted a fake Jeff Bezos impersonator at a company celebration in Austria are now under investigation. The event, hosted by tool manufacturer Haidlmair, took place in August at a celebration to mark a significant contract with Amazon. A professional impersonator in a suit and aviator sunglasses arrived in a helicopter, accompanied by three masked and heavily armed police officers from the Upper Austrian Schnelle Interventionsgruppe (SIG).
The officers were real, but the man impersonating Bezos was not the actual Amazon founder. The police escort prompted an internal investigation by Austrian police, and the Federal Bureau for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption (BAK) is also examining the circumstances surrounding the event. It is unclear who authorized the deployment of the police officers and why the local police service in Kirchdorf was not involved.
The case raises questions about whether the SIG was the appropriate unit for the job and if the officers could record their time as overtime.
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