In the inquiry affair, Wolfgang Peschorn, as a lawyer for the Republic, locates a “very generous treatment” of taxpayers’ money. Rope teams are “poison to the rule of law”.
Memory gaps and orgies of dismissal usually characterize many subcommittee surveys. Not so with Wolfgang Peschorn, head of the financial procuratorate, who did not mince words in the ÖVP U committee.
Damage claims “in all directions”
In his capacity as a lawyer for the republic, he stated that the state may have been a victim of the ÖVP survey scandal and would join any criminal proceedings as a private party. Damage claims would be checked “in all directions”.
The lawyer also said that “public money has been used very generously”. For example in the ‘critter study’ – that is what Peschorn called the research in which politicians were compared with animals.
No concrete information about networks
Peschorn has previously criticized “cliques” and “networks of advisers and interests” who would influence decision-makers in the republic and whose interest was to “enforce something contrary to the interests of the republic.” They are “the insidious poison to the rule of law”.
The financial prosecutor opposed this and was therefore exposed to reprisals. He certainly aroused the interest of the MPs, but then did not answer which networks he was referring to.
“Not a normal criminal case”
In the tense relationship between the prosecutor’s office of economic and corruption and the “SOKO Tape”, which already existed at the beginning of the Ibiza investigation, he tried to mediate during his time as interior minister under the government of Bierlein. And he said Ibiza is “not your normal criminal case”.
Legal chaos surrounding the application for a fine
By the way: The application for a fine against Hans Jörg Schelling (ÖVP), announced by the chairman of the Third National Council, Norbert Hofer (FPÖ), for refusing to answer questions about the ÖVP advertising affair, is not going as fast as expected . It is not legally clear who can sign it: Hofer or the chairman of the National Council Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP).
Source: Krone
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