The hub of numerous political proceedings and investigations aims to reveal new details: Thomas Schmid, whose cell phone caused the fall of the Kurz government, now wants to become a key witness. His former comrades in arms are now shaking, according to information from “Krone”, searches were also carried out on Tuesday at René Benko’s Signa Holding and the turquoise networker Gabi Spiegelfeld.
The VP’s declining polls are just the party’s second biggest problem: Thomas Schmid unpacks. According to the WKStA – as reported – he has applied for the leniency notice, in exchange for a reduced sentence or even impunity, he wanted to provide new insights into the CASAG procedure. It summarizes all the lines of inquiry that emerged from the Ibiza video, including the casino investigations or the investigations into the so-called leg scraping tool.
- The most prominent suspect from the trial complex is: Sebastian Kurz. He resigned around the fall of 2021 – officially, however, for private reasons. He is charged with various offenses, from intervening in Schmid’s ÖBAG order to arranging the research affair with the Karmasin Institute, see “Beinschab”.
- Also in tax issues surrounding Siegfried Wolf and Rene Benko Schmid was involved. There are, among other things, irregularities around a building on the Tuchlauben in Vienna. According to information from “Krone”, there were also house searches near Benko and the turquoise networker on Tuesday Gabi Spiegelfeld given. According to reports, Benkos Signa Holding handles documents from an appraiser who assessed the Tyrolean’s real estate.
- The immediate vicinity of the former chancellor – to which Schmid himself belonged – could also become the focus of the investigations. A number of turquoise competitors, as well as the media that allegedly printed fake Karmasin Institute surveys against the posting of ads, could now be back in the focus of the WKStA.
- The statements against the three former ÖVP finance ministers could also provide new material Hartwig Loeger, Josef Proell and Gernot Blumel bring.
15 interrogations since June
In the course of these investigations, Thomas Schmid approached the WKStA in April 2022 with the desire to cooperate and obtain leniency status: “In this context, a total of 15 full day interrogations have taken place at the WKStA since June 2022, during which the accused was extensively questioned.”
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the information obtained during the interrogations would now be checked and “further investigation aimed at this”.
Source: Krone
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