These summonses by the opposition parties have already taken effect, according to a broadcast. The first meeting after the summer break is scheduled for September 6th, followed by 18 more by December 7th.
Also scheduled for an appearance are the Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, Ibiza detective Julian Hessenthaler, the former chancellor spokesman Johannes Frischmann, ÖVP advisor Stefan Steiner, Integration Minister Susanne Raab (ÖVP), the former Upper Austrian governor Josef Pühringer (ÖVP) and Ex-Casino general director and ex-ÖVP deputy boss Bettina Glatz-Kremsner. Also invited are ex-OMV supervisory board chairman Wolfgang Berndt and the two ex-OMV board members Rainer Seele and Gerhard Roiss, cable car boss Franz Hörl, ex-ÖVP general secretary Alexander Melchior, former Vorarlberg economic association chairman Hans-Peter Metzler, ÖBAG -Supervisory Board Chairman Günther Ofner and pollster Franz Sommer.
Whether everyone will come is uncertain. Marsalek is currently on the run, Firtash is fighting his extradition to the USA and Braun is in custody in Germany.
The local ÖVP has little joy with the overlapping of the investigative committee with the hot phase of the Tyrolean state election campaign. Tyrol will vote on September 25th. That cable car and head of the Economic Association Abg. Hörl as well as state manager Martin Malaun, deputy state governor Josef Geisler and young farmer state head Dominik Traxl are invited, enraged the black state party.
It was a “clumsy attempt to campaign at the expense of enlightenment and to draw Tyrol into federal political disputes,” explained club chairman Jakob Wolf in a broadcast. With the help of “their Viennese colleagues”, Tyrol’s opposition parties SPÖ, FPÖ and NEOS would try two months before the state elections to draw the state of Tyrol into the “national political mud battle”. It is frightening that Traxl, a “young, voluntary Tyrolean, is linked to allegations of corruption at the federal level and thus wants to criminalize the entire young farmer community/rural youth”. “It’s a dirt bucket campaign – nothing more and nothing less,” said Wolf, who spoke of a “transparent maneuver”.
Source: Nachrichten
