Tomorrow on Thursdays there are decisive days for ex-finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser and former friends as well as business partners. The Supreme Court (OGH) in Vienna decides whether the first instance judgment against the former “son -in -law of the nation” holds and Grasser has to custody for eight years. This is the (preliminary) conclusion of a real estate deal that has been employing the republic for 21 years now.
At that time, the federal apartments went to a consortium around the immofinance of the controversial manager Karl Petrikovics for 961 million euros, the inferior bidder CA Immo had just one million euros less for the approximately 60,000 apartments. This caused a surprise that this privatization might have been pushed, but it only turned out a few years later when it became known that two Grasser friends-ex-FPÖ general secretary Walter Meischberger and lobbyist Peter Hochegger-had recorded 9.6 million euros in commission at the Immofinanz deal.
Who gave the crucial tip for the offer?
The question was after that: Did Grasser reveal to his friends who advised the Immofinanz how high the offer should be for a surcharge and thus damaged the republic? The ex-finance minister denies the verbose to this day, but Hochegger is heavily burdened. At the 168-day BUWOG process, this had accused Grasser of working on a crime plan to enrich himself illegally on the republic.
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