The federal administrative court has fined two informants invited to the ÖVP U committee: the former secretary general of the Ministry of Finance Thomas Schmid has to pay 5,000 euros. The entrepreneur Siegfried Wolf was sentenced to a fine of 1,000 euros – of which he learned a few days before his actual appearance in the U-Commission on Wednesday.
Schmid, whose secure chats had provoked various proceedings by the prosecution for business and corruption, had once testified before the Ibizan Commission of Inquiry. However, he failed to meet other charges, including those of ÖVP’s current Commission of Inquiry. These are deemed to have been delivered. So far, however, there has been no response from the former financial general and board of the state holding company ÖBAG.
Wolf will not appeal the verdict
Schmid was recently supposed to appear in the inquiry committee on Wednesday, but he did not take this opportunity either. That day Wolf came. According to a ruling of the Federal Administrative Court (BvWG) of April 4 and available to the APA, the multimillionaire still has to pay 1,000 euros because he failed to show up for his first summons on January 26. A spokesperson said he would not appeal the ruling.
Wolf had indicated at the time that he could not come because of agreements abroad. Parliament saw the reason for the apology as insufficiently substantiated and asked the Federal Administrative Court to refuse to comply. On Wednesday, the entrepreneur actually appeared as an information provider, which he had promised to come weeks earlier. However, the legal proceedings continued. A day before the commission, he heard about the reconciliation fine, which he will pay, according to his spokesman.
“Quite right”
Wolf was mainly invited to the subcommittee because of his tax case. He had intervened – ultimately in vain – with the Treasury to make an additional payment. He defended himself in the U-Commission and saw himself as “perfectly right” in his trial. After him, the former Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling was invited, who attracted attention with numerous refusals. A flexor penalty was also eventually requested against him, but for refusing to testify.
Source: Krone
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