U-Commission: Two tax officials talked about embellished studies. New figures on dubious circuits were also revealed.
Sabine Beinschab was not present, but was present. Your “tool” was the subject of the interviews in the U-Commission. The “Krone” had previously reported on details. Almost 600,000 euros for embellished studies since 2017 in the sense of Sebastian Kurz, paid by the Ministry of Finance (BMF) – from research funding. So from the taxpayer. The daring pieces were mainly published in Fellner’s Reich. Who knew about this? Who was involved and how?
Finance Department Secretary General Dietmar Schuster and Johannes Pasquali, who was responsible for public relations, were asked about this on Wednesday. “I was informed about the surveys, but I knew nothing about the dates or their contents,” said Schuster, then Deputy General Thomas Schmid, the central figure on the commission and on investigations.
The suspicious investigations were billed through Pasquali’s department. He is accused of the case, as are several others. It’s about infidelity and bribery – the presumption of innocence applies. Pasquali was also asked about placing advertisements. For example in the “Bauernzeitung”. He defended this with education for the elderly. He had been with the BMF since 2002. He had to leave shortly after an internal audit. He is challenging his dismissal before the Labor and Social Court.
The People’s Party’s Counterattack
The ÖVP never missed an opportunity to bring the SPÖ into play. In 2016, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management placed advertisements worth EUR 639,038 net. Among them also to an SPÖ publishing house that no longer exists. The leader of the Red faction, Jan Krainer, said this had nothing to do with the subject of the investigation. It only concerns the “ÖVP corruption”.
The FPÖ, in turn, presented a side letter between ex-Finance Minister Hans Jörg Schelling and Kurz from April 2015. According to this letter, the BMF would make five million available for 2016-2019. According to the FPÖ for “contracts for work.” The Blues have submitted a request for this.
Source: Krone
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