This is reported by “Kronen Zeitung” online. The procedure had to be repeated because exculpatory chat messages were not sufficiently appreciated in the first instance.
Strache was in August 2021 Affair about the Private Hospitals Financing Fund (Prikraf) was conditionally sentenced to 15 months for corruption, the co-accused owner of the Währing private clinic, Walter Grubmüller, to twelve months, also on probation. The procedure was about a suspected law purchase in connection with the Währing private clinic, the clinic operator had donated a total of 12,000 euros to the federal FPÖ.
The Higher Regional Court had come to the conclusion that the reasoning behind the judgment of the court of first instance was contradictory and incomprehensible. This violates the objectivity requirement in the assessment of evidence, reports the “Krone”. Strache was “happy about the OLG’s decision” via Twitter. He will prove his innocence in the new trial, he said.
The Prikraf criminal trial was the first following the release of the Ibiza video. In a second bribery trial, Strache and co-defendant businessman Siegfried Stieglitz were “acquitted in case of doubt” at the end of July. In this process, Strache was accused of having obtained a supervisory board position in Asfinag for donations to a Stieglitz association close to the FPÖ. From the point of view of the court of first instance, the evidence in this case was not sufficient.
Source: Nachrichten
