Advertisements against benevolent short reporting? Swiss publishing house in Austria’s corruption swamp
Serious allegations: The free newspaper “Heute” is said to have presented ex-Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in the best light in return for lavish advertising money from the state coffers. The affair also affects the Swiss TX Group, which owns shares in “Today”.
Crooked deals? “Heute” publisher Eva Dichand with the then Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz at an event in Vienna (November 2014).
Andreas Tischler / APA
With how much corruption and criminal counter-business with powerful media entrepreneurs did Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) secure his way to the Chancellery? Austria is once again concerned with this question.
