Day two of the trial against former Minister of Family Affairs Sophie Karmasin also promises to be exciting. Opinion researcher Sabine Beinschab is invited at 12:30 p.m. She was granted leniency witness status last year through an extensive confession at the CASAG complex, which also provided new facts and evidence.
The trial against Karmasin and a co-suspected department head of the sports ministry is about orders from the sports department, for which she was allegedly contracted after her political career through illegal price fixing. The second allegation relates to the continued payment of salary after leaving the ministerial office on December 18, 2017. Karmasin should not have earned anything during the continued payment of salary. The Public Prosecution Service assumes that the former minister also took on odd jobs as a freelancer. According to the WKStA, she concealed her income by not accounting for it until after the continued payment had ended.
Karmasin pleads ‘not guilty’
At the start of the trial on Tuesday, Karmasin pleaded “not guilty”. However, the 56-year-old also admitted to making mistakes: “Yes, I took the issue of continued payment lightly.” Her “naive, careless handling of the matter,” as she put it in court, left her with regret. However, she refunded the gross amount “although I myself only received the net amount”.
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