I thought long and hard about whether, how and, above all, to what extent I would write the final report, because the whole thing not only affects my interests, but above all those of the third parties involved and it is, I am sorry to say, already questionable under criminal law in some areas. After detailed consultation with some of the companies involved and after a lawyer’s assessment of the facts, I will therefore concentrate mainly on two things that I can publish without any problems because they are exemplary enough for an overall understanding and I can do so without affecting the interests of third parties. That is why I will only name those who are not involved myself and who were also misused by Mr. Fehl to maintain a fiction for third parties without his own knowledge. There were no objections to this either and I can also take the opportunity to name these companies as uninvolved parties, which will save them the effort of having to rectify the situation.
A company that doesn’t exist. What do you mean?
There is a good reason why I am not writing in more detail about the companies Meyer & Fehl Unternehmensgruppe, MFPD X-Apply Brand Office, M&F Product Development UG and MF Product Development B.V.: they all never existed.
In addition, there are details of protected brands or trademarks that are not registered with the DPMA (and nowhere else) and also references to third-party documents, but without their knowledge or approval. And just as an aside, the UG does not stand for Unternehmensgruppe but Unternehmergesellschaft (special form of a GmbH):
So let’s try the fact check:
- The UG should at least have been labeled as UG i.G. (in formation) in correspondence and documents, but it was not. A German commercial register entry including a tax number and a VAT ID do not yet exist.
- The Dutch B.V. in Venlo does not exist and the KVK number given for it (corresponds to the German HRB number) is incorrect and does not officially exist at all. Added to this is the fictitious tax number. All queries regarding this information came to nothing.
I do not want to and am not allowed to evaluate this, but under Dutch law, unlike in Germany, such information generally constitutes a tangible forgery of documents.
At the address of the single-storey shopping complex in Venlo, you will only find the supplier entrance at the back and the roller shutter door of a store in the front street. ForaVida at Nijmeegeweg 2D is a manufacturer of patio covers and sliding glass doors and operates a showroom there, KFC is located at number 2 and the next building is already number 4.
However, all these details were used in the correspondence, in the footers and even on business cards for self-presentation in order to create and maintain a fiction. In addition, different footers were used depending on the interlocutor and addressee, with some adding that they were acting as a startup by name and on behalf of a well-known company. However, this is bad luck at the latest when those affected become aware of such nuances through cross-comparisons. Since at least one of the companies will also take legal action against this, I will not mention any names for understandable reasons.
However, the verifiable fact of this presumption alone speaks volumes. In total, however, it was so cleverly arranged and in the area of information and circumstances, at first glance, always accumulated to a common denominator that in the end none of those involved could understand exactly which information perhaps even had its origin in their own environment and what Mr. Fehl then brought back to the matter as his own contribution or knowledge to third parties. That will have to be enough about this company story for now, because it is bad enough as it is.
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