2023-08-11 15:08:03
In the expenses affair surrounding the former FPÖ party leader and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, according to “Kurier” there is a first charge: A former driver of Strache and former blue Viennese councilor has to go to court for false testimony, like his lawyer Meinhard Novak of the newspaper confirmed on Friday.
The affair became public in September 2019, a few days before the National Council election. The basis was an anonymous ad. Strache is suspected of having financed his private life to a large extent with party funds from the time he took over the party chairmanship in 2006 until the end of May 2019, in which he and former employees are said to have declared private invoices from him as professional expenses using bogus receipts. Strache rejects the allegations. In addition to Strache, other FPÖ representatives are also being investigated. A judgment by the Vienna Higher Regional Court (OLG) recently showed that the total damage, according to investigators, should amount to at least 1.032 million euros.
Strache’s former employee, against whom his lawyer says there is a criminal complaint, was initially a witness according to “Kurier” and testified against his boss when the expense affair became known. Among other things, he presented the investigators with invoices as evidence. According to reports, two of them are now being used against him. Because in the course of the investigation it is said to have been determined that they were not assigned to Strache, but to the ex-driver. It is said to be restaurant bills of around 500 euros.
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