For former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, the acquittal is an important phase victory against the economic and corruption officer of Justice (WKSTA). The senate of the judge wiped out the guilty judgment for false statements on Monday. The researchers are ashamed.
The family was his first phone calls. Ten minutes after the acquittal, former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz remained in the negotiating hall in the Palace of Justice to call his partner Susanne and his parents. Even if the former Chancellor was emphasized, a stone fell short from the heart.
His statement about acquittal was then reduced to three sentences: “You have fully noticed in recent years. I have been confronted with allegations for years. Now this has all collapsed.”
A simple “yes” answer was sufficient for the senate of the judge in the higher regional court of Vienna to briefly express Neos MP Stefanie Krisper five years ago, the then Chancellor asked the Ibiza-U-Committee: “Do you have a general perception to name the Öbag Supervisory? At the time, briefly replied: “Yes.” In short, the yes-no question whether it was integrated in the order was correctly answered.
According to the three -member of Richter Senate, the “objective fact of the wrong statement of proof was not fulfilled”. The acquittal is final.
Release
He again marked a shameful defeat for the economic and corruption officer of Justice. Which has long been criticized. For example, the procedure against the former green politician Christoph Chorherr and all people accused with him at the Vienna Criminal Court ended in 2023. The indictment against ex-Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and private clinic operator Walter Grubmüler also culminerde in the pricker. With an acquittal, the trial against the lower Austrian FPö State Councilor Gottfried Waldhäusl also ended in September And a former state employee.
For four years, the WKSTA had now briefly engaged whether the ex-Oövp boss in the appointment of the Öbag Supervisory Board was only involved in the feeling of informed “or whether he was the real string power. The process was all about the fact that the role of ordering the supervisory board of Staatsholding Öbag would have said that it was triggered briefly, the claim of the WKSTA.
Several thousand pages of Research Act
An incredible effort was driven. For six hours alone, 30 witnesses were interviewed by the corruption hunters. Thousands of pages filled in in the study.
Nevertheless, the indictment of 108 years before the false statement was ultimately not watertight. After twelve test days in the big jury, judge Michael Radasztics said that he had found a Maas in the law to briefly impose a guilty verdict. The former Chancellor said the truth in the U-Committee, but not to the full extent, the legal justification of the judge for the guilty judgment.
Non -specific argument
Radasztics’ argument at the time: an hour and a half after the issue of Krisper, in the U-Committee, if another question would have had the opportunity to explain the full truth about his integration into the Öbag Supervisory Board. The senate of the judge has also swept this reasoning in the Palace of Justice.
The acquittal marks a stage win for Kurz against the WKSTA. There is still a Downer: the guilty judgment for Bernhard Bonelli, head of Kurz’s cupboard, was confirmed.
Source: Krone
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