Former politician and unmasker Peter Pilz has targeted former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl in his current book ‘Eastern Block’. He also discusses the contents of the laptop of former section leader Christian Pilnacek. The “Krone” has all the contents and has submitted them to the U-Commission. Monday is the day of truth.
The story of former top judge Pilnacek, who died in October 2023, will enter a new chapter next Monday. Martin Kreutner revealed to the “Krone” that he and his colleagues from the U-Commission, appointed by Justice Minister Alma Zadic (Greens), will hold a press conference on Monday morning about the findings of their months-long investigation. At the Concordia press club in Vienna. Corruption investigator Kreutner and his team investigated alleged political influences on the judiciary based on a secret audio recording.
In late July 2023, Pilnacek said during a meeting with confidants in a well-known bar in the city center that ÖVP grandees wanted to get him to intervene in the proceedings or prevent searches. What Pilnacek, who is very close to the ÖVP, denied. The “Krone” received the tape recording and published its contents together with the ORF. Zadic then installed the U-Commission.
Herbert Kickl and the Secret Service
They wanted to present their findings in mid-June. However, many more studies and information came along that made an extension necessary. The ‘Krone’ sent, among other things, Pilnacek’s long-lost private laptop, which ended up at the newspaper via a detour, to Kreutner. As well as the contents of private e-mail accounts. Another data carrier is said to have ended up in the Danube. Peter Pilz, ex-politician, expositor and operator of the platform “zackzack”, also provided the committee with a lot of information. And he has also recorded it in his current book ‘Eastern Block’. But much more. A central chapter is about Herbert Kickl. Today head of the FPÖ, but not without controversy as Minister of the Interior.
The proximity of the ÖVP
For Pilz, one thing is certain: “The professional politician Kickl ruined the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution during his time as Minister of the Interior from 2017 to 2019 and caused greater damage to Austria than all Ministers of the Interior before him.” in his book: After his suspension in 2021, former Judge General Pilnacek also acted as a kind of legal advisor to ÖVP people on suspicion of illegally passing on data. The “Krone” also reported. The data carriers show, among other things, that the top lawyer had written parliamentary questions for Türkise. Proof of the close ties between the section leader and the ÖVP.
Pilz emphasizes: “The book is a big warning. The danger is that the ÖVP will become a second FPÖ. Viktor Orban will be happy to pat himself on the back given these circumstances in Austria.”
Source: Krone
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