Criminal Charges and Injunction Filed Against Wengert

FRANKFURT/MAIN (Germany) 13th February (ots/PROTEXT) -Fraport AG (FRA) has filed charges against the financialaccountant Georg Wengert of Singen, Germany, and some of hisstaff on suspicion of a criminal offence under Article 17 of theGerman Unfair Competition Act - disclosure of trade and businesssecrets and so-called trading in confidential secrets. Fraporthas also obtained a cease and desist injunction and aninjunction to surrender documents which came unlawfully into hispossession. The injunction from the Frankfurt district court(Landgericht Frankfurt am Main) was delivered to Wengert onFebruary 12, 2004.

Wengert and his companies - Wengert AG, M + M GmbHVermögensgesellschaft, Wengert GmbH, and Allconsult GmbH - haveto pay fines of up to EUR 250,000 if they allow third partiesaccess to confidential business documents of Fraport AG.Specifically, this relates to reports and supervisory boardminutes on Fraport's "Manila Project", which Wengert receivedin violation of corporate confidentiality and penial provisions,and which he used illegally. Wengert was repeatedly demanded toreturn the confidental documents, without success, and to give acease and desist declaration.

Wengert alleged to be working in the interests of Fraportshareholders, although in reality his campaign against Fraport'sexecutive board and supervisory board achieved exactly theopposite.

For More Information, Please Contact: Fraport AG FrankfurtAirport Services Worldwide Robert A. Payne - ManagerInternational Press 60547 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Tel.: +4969.690.78547; Fax: +49.69.690.60548; E-mail:r.payne@fraport.de; Internet: www.fraport.de (click on "PressLounge")

Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug"PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to bepublished under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial serviceproviding distribution of press releases from clients, who areidentified in the text of Protext reports and who bear fullresponsibility for their contents.

PROTEXT