According to the indictment, the ex-FPÖ boss is said to have given the accused businessman Siegfried Stieglitz a supervisory board position in Asfinag for donations to an association close to the FPÖ. street was not finally sentenced to 15 months of conditional imprisonment almost a year ago.
The last witnesses in the trial were questioned on Tuesday, including the former head of cabinet of the former infrastructure minister in the turquoise-blue government, Rene Schimanek. He is said to have passed on a list of names of possible FPÖ candidates for committees in state-related companies, on which Stieglitz also ended up. street and Stieglitz deny the allegations against them.
It’s not just donations to the “Austria in Motion” association that are said to be piecemeal that play a role. According to the Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (WKStA). street also been invited to Dubai for Stieglitz’ birthday party – what street however declined. Stieglitz is accused of bribery, street corruption.
The current main hearing is the second criminal case against street after the release of the Ibiza video. At the end of August 2021, the ex-FPÖ leader was sentenced by the Vienna regional court in the first instance in connection with the affair about the private hospital financing fund (Prikraf). The procedure was about a suspected law purchase in connection with the Währing private clinic.
Source: Nachrichten
