2023-08-30 12:44:43
After the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKStA) announced its investigative steps, including house searches, in connection with surveys commissioned by several ÖVP-led ministries in 2021 and 2022 at the Demox Institute, further details have now become known . As can be seen from a seizure order available to the APA, she was also interested in a study by the M&R Institute from 2016.
The survey asked whether the later ÖVP leader and Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had a sympathetic charisma or whether he cleverly concealed his personal striving for power. The WKStA, which did not confirm the authenticity of the seizure order to the APA and only referred to its press release from the previous week, wants to collect the circumstances of the commissioning and the financing, according to the reason for the ordered measure.
In this way, the investigators hope, statements by Kurz’s predecessor, Reinhold Mitterlehner, regarding the planned takeover date of the party could be confirmed, especially since the M&R survey coincides with the first contacts between the accused regarding surveys in the daily newspaper “Österreich”. The WKStA expects results from this to show who was involved in the surveys in Kurz’s circle. She has “Dr. Steiner” in mind, probably the short confidante Stefan Steiner.
In general, this is “in the light of the serious suspicion of bribery or corruption of the highest officials in the country and breach of trust” in connection with the administration of public assets and damage to a considerable extent to the disadvantage of the Republic of Austria, according to the WKStA.
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