Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Co.: The subject of whistleblowing first became known to the public with Julian Hessenthaler’s Ibiza Strache video. Since last year, legal requirements for dealing with informants have been in force in Austria. And the number of reports is increasing, the authorities involved know. How things are going, what has changed and what punishments await everyone.
The Austrian ambassador to Athens, Herbert Amry, once demonstrated this: “In 1985 he repeatedly informed the Austrian Foreign Ministry using telexes and telegrams about indications of illegal Austrian arms exports to Iran,” recalls Viennese lawyer Martin Bleckmann. Shortly afterwards, Amry died under unclear circumstances; The arms exports of the Austrian VÖEST subsidiary Noricum later became known as the Noricum scandal.
Source: Krone
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