The Public Prosecution Service for Economic and Corruption (WKStA) has filed a new indictment against three people in the Eurofighter case complex with allegations of breach of trust as participants in the Vienna Regional Court. The damage is reported to be 65 million euros.
The trio is accused of helping a former German manager of aviation company EADS, who was legally convicted in February 2019, with bribes.
Already guilty verdict in Munich
The person responsible for EADS allegedly caused an outflow of resources without compensation to the detriment of EADS by concluding fictitious contracts with the fictitious company VECTOR Aerospace LLP, the WKStA said in a press release on Wednesday. For this, he was legally sentenced to a suspended prison sentence by the Munich court in Germany in February 2019.
Sham companies and sham contracts
The trio is said to have been involved in the establishment of the fictitious company VECTOR Aerospace, but also in concluding fictitious contracts and drawing up fictitious invoices. The three managers and lobbyists risk a prison sentence of up to ten years. Any further investigation against the three was halted.
The WKStA announced that the indictment and the partial suspension of the investigation took place after approval of the corresponding project report by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Vienna and the Federal Ministry of Justice after consultation with the Instruction Council.
Difficult legal processing
The black and blue federal government led by Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel (ÖVP) decided to purchase new interceptors in 2000. Surprisingly, in 2002 the type decision was made for the Eurofighter as the Draken successor. The contract was signed a year later.
The first investigative committee was formed in 2006, followed by two more. In 2019, the WKStA took over the Eurofighter investigations from the Vienna Public Prosecutor’s Office, which was previously responsible. The legal process continues to this day.
Source: Krone

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