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According to media reports, a criminal complaint has been filed against Peter Mennel, the Secretary General of the Austrian Olympic Committee (ÖOC), and the ÖOC Presidium. This is available to the Standard (online edition) and the ORF, as they reported on Thursday evening. Mennel is therefore suspected of serious infidelity, and the executive committee is accused of aiding and abetting. It is the presumption of innocence.
According to Standard, the complaint was submitted to the Vienna public prosecutor’s office by Viennese lawyer Volkert Sackmann on behalf of “full members of the ÖOC”, i.e. sports associations with seats in the ÖOC general meeting. They see themselves as “damaged” by Mennel and the Presidium. At the center of the case is the crowdfunding platform “I believe in you,” which was founded more than eight years ago. The platform’s balance sheet losses are said to have been covered by the ÖOC’s club assets. The ÖOC members are said to have suffered damages of 416,000 euros.
The media initially received no comments in response to inquiries to Mennel and ÖOC President Karl Stoss.
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