The opposition party announced that the independent arbitral tribunal within the framework of the commission of inquiry into the Wien Energie cause had approved the applications for evidence submitted by the ÖVP Vienna. Similar requests from the Viennese FPÖ were not admitted by the arbitral tribunal.
ÖVP and FPÖ demanded that, among other things, telephone logs, e-mails or calendar entries from Ludwig and other people involved in the matter must be presented. However, it is unclear whether these will actually be presented after the applications for evidence have been granted.
Like other utilities in Europe, Wien Energie had to deposit high security deposits for trading in electricity and gas as a result of the price jumps and was no longer able to finance these from its own resources from the summer. Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) had therefore made a total of 1.4 billion euros available from July by emergency authority. The liquidity bottleneck and the mayor’s emergency loans became public at the end of August, when these 1.4 billion euros were also running out. As a result, the federal government granted a further 2 billion euros via the Federal Financing Agency (ÖBFA), but these have not been used until now because the prices then fell again. In the meantime, Wien Energie has also repaid the city’s 1.4 billion euros in full.
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