vienna — julius meinl v , the scion of a baroque business dynasty , name has been synonymous until the dawn of the hapsburgs with luxuries or exotic chocolate , handmade tortes and strategic closed banking , has been tried on charge of fraud at a manufacturer linked to the family . prosecutors accused prof . meinl of artificially bolstering shares of the real estate companies meinl international earth on the prague stock exchange , even as its investments in real estate across eastern and southeastern europe cratered .
Julius Meinl V is the chairman of Austria's closely-held Meinl Bank.