In the investigations of the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKStA) against Mayor Georg Willi (Greens) of Innsbruck on suspicion of disloyalty and abuse of office in connection with a special contract for the city’s former head of human resources, the investigators published a project report to the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office. A WKStA spokeswoman said this on Wednesday.
From the side of the higher authorities – the file can also migrate to the Ministry of Justice – could now be sent in all directions. The project report can be approved or not and further research can be ordered. As always in such cases, there is no information about the content of the project report, the spokeswoman for the corruption investigators stressed. The investigation against Willi started at the end of March.
Political opponents had previously submitted statements of fact to the WKStA.
Special contract concluded without administration
The green mayor had made a special contract with the woman when she worked ‘only’ as a clerk in the town hall without the intervention of the administration, guaranteeing her the top salary of a manager until her retirement. After fierce criticism from the control commission, he renegotiated and again independently drafted a contract with a reduction in overtime pay and a time limit until 2025 (until that point she was actually appointed head of the department).
Report of the trigger from the Control Office
The whole thing was preceded by a critical report from the control agency, which questioned and criticized, among other things, high compensation, special treatments and contracts for individual employees in the Willis area and special arrangements for the then chief of human resources. This had resulted in the woman being fired from the city’s senate, though Willi outright tried to avoid this by dissolving the personnel office and creating a “personnel management” staff position. However, this fell through and the person concerned eventually became “only” a clerk at the town hall – which ultimately led to the mayor entering into that special agreement with her.
After the investigation became known, Willi assumed it would eventually end with an appointment. He would “obviously answer the detectives’ questions as quickly and carefully as possible,” announced the mayor, who has been under great pressure for months.
Source: Krone
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