The first trials surrounding the Equip4Ordi scandal have begun, but those who exposed it have withdrawn. There are now two parties facing each other in court who are unlikely to have any interest in a conflict. However, the Vienna Medical Association could be tripping over itself.
The Public Prosecution Service is still embroiled in the investigation into the Equip4Ordi scandal surrounding dark money flows in the defunct medical company for ordination supplies. However, trials have already begun in Vienna before the Commercial Court and the Labor and Social Court – but now by the Medical Association without the former revealers, who have now withdrawn more or less voluntarily.
It stays in the family
The legacy of Equip4Ordi is essentially facing the court: on one side the ex-director – and on the side of the chamber a replaced, new team of lawyers with the blessing of President Johannes Steinhart, who himself is listed as a defendant in the court. the case . Moreover, the remains of Equip4 Ordi are now managed by the former law firm partner of the ex-director.
Medical Association is silent on “legal strategy”.
Those around the powerless debunkers now suspect that the two lawsuits should ‘disappear’ as quietly as possible. The room keeps a low profile. The “Krone” told the newspaper that they “did not want to comment on the current legal strategy”. On the first day of the hearing, the proceedings at the Labor and Social Court were postponed until March; the proceedings at the Commercial Court are currently up in the air due to a possible lack of jurisdiction.
Erik Randall Huber, who exposed the scandal as Curia chairman at the time and has now resigned from his chamber position, is nevertheless convinced: the chamber simply cannot afford to resolve the complaints quickly – for example about a settlement that her was unfavorable because then the Public Prosecution Service would inevitably recognize the intention behind it and only investigate more intensively.
Source: Krone
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