Oliver Janich
German conspiracy theorist, politician, author and activist
Oliver Markus Raoul Janich (born 3 January 1969) is a German far-right conspiracy theorist, former journalist, author and banned YouTuber. He is the founder and former president of the libertarian minor party, Partei der Vernunft (Party of Reason). In 2022, he was sentenced to a prison term in Germany.
Investigations and conspiracy theories
Janich worked as an editor for the German magazine Focus Money where he was effectively let go in 2010 for advertising his own political party, the Party of Reason, in the magazine.
Investigations against Janich for alleged stock market manipulation
Together with two friends from the time he studied economics, Janich was part of a network of stock traders and stock market journalists ("Bosler-Clique") who systemically raised the share prices of rather unknown listed companies, whose shares had previously been bought by people in their network, by promoting the purchase of the companies shares. In September 2010, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Munich ordered a search of the offices and apartments of approximately 30 suspects including Janich. The ringleaders of the conspiracy, of whom Janich was not one according to findings from the trial, were convicted in 2012. Several stock market journalists had reduced their sentences by admitting their crimes and only received suspended sentences at most.
He currently resides in the Philippines. In August 2022, he was arrested by the Philippine authorities at a resort in Romblon.
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