A few days after the interrogation of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) by the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKStA), excerpts from the minutes of this statement about the ÖVP investigations appeared on Friday. In it, Kurz again tries to question the credibility of his ex-confidant Thomas Schmid. “What he says is not the Bible, but his statement does not correspond to the truth in many areas,” Kurz explained, according to the report.
The former ÖVP boss rejected the question from the public prosecutor’s office whether he wanted to influence co-suspect Schmid with the recorded telephone conversation “and such suggestive questions”. “Why are you thinking about that?” he asks back.
In short: I told the truth “simple and gripping”.
In any case, Schmid could have objected in the more than ten minutes of conversation if they had committed a crime together. Instead, he blamed himself and others, including ex-Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling (ÖVP). With his questions about what he had not done, he himself told the truth “simply and movingly”, according to the former ÖVP boss.
The leaked minutes of the short survey are already circulating on Twitter:
Borrowed the driver’s mobile phone for the recording
He simply borrowed the driver’s mobile phone and recorded the conversation, without saying for what purpose. And, “I didn’t record phone conversations with other people before or after.”
He is currently in “natural” contact with the other defendant, including Gerald Fleischmann, who is now the ÖVP communications chief, former Chancellor spokesman Johannes Frischmann and his adviser Stefan Steiner. But “these allegations” are not mentioned, “they are already a year old”. Kurz’s lawyer, Werner Suppan, could not be reached for a statement to the APA.
Source: Krone
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