The video decoy in the FPÖ affair reveals secrets for the first time: “The world needs to know about these kinds of politicians.”
Even more than five years after one of the biggest domestic political scandals, the Vienna prosecutor’s office is investigating the “shy Russian” – as Heinz-Christian Strache said that night on the Spanish party island – on suspicion of document forgery. . The investigation into the production of the video in a bugged villa with the then blue grandees Heinz-Christian Strache and party friend Johann Gudenus has been dropped.
Ibiza decoy was present at the video transmission
The interrogation of 41-year-old Latvian Una S., who played the niece of alleged Russian oligarch “Alyona Makarova”, was conducted by the State Security Service in the capital Riga. The statements of the divorced and currently unemployed mother are quite interesting.
Una S. admits that she was present when the video was handed over to journalists with the investigator from Ibiza in Germany, near the Polish border: “It was only when I got there and met Julian Hessenthaler that I discovered the existence of the video. The journalists wanted to see me to see with their own eyes that I was a real person.” Hessenthaler had met her for three years before the affair broke out “around 2015 or 2016” in a bar in the center of Vienna. He gave the impression of an influential person.” Hessenthaler came up with the code name Alyona. “Based on the information I have at my disposal, I can imagine that he pretended to be a rich Russian girl to these people.”
She did not know what positions they held. And what was the purpose of publishing the secretly made recordings? “The world must know about these kinds of politicians in Austria!”
Financial movements of more than one million euros
Otherwise, the handsome decoy with the only noticeable disadvantage of dirty toenails will come across as unsuspecting. As for the search for her, the alleged forgery of documents and the production of the video. “I never received any payment for that.” The account openings at Una S obviously do not fit into this version. In total, financial movements worth more than one million euros (!) have been noted.
Also at least three transfers with the text “Alyona Makarova Ibiza affair”. Now the investigation is also about suspected money laundering
Source: Krone
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