AustriaJudge Michael Radasztics in the case held at the Vienna District Court in former Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz He shared the verdict given about him with the public.
Radasztics, in the country “Ibiza scandal” The former Prime Minister, who was heard as a witness in the parliamentary commission established to investigate the scandal that broke out after the video appeared in the press, showing the far-right ex-Deputy Prime Minister Heinz Christian Strache negotiating on some issues such as the awarding of state tenders to Russia on the Spanish island of Ibiza. He stated that Kurz underestimated his position here.
Stating that Kurz took this attitude consciously, Radasztics said that he made a “misrepresentation” in his objective and subjective statements here.
The judge stated that Kurz was found guilty of making false statements and was sentenced to 8 months of “conditional imprisonment”.
In the decision of conviction, which is called conditional imprisonment in Austrian law, individuals are not imprisoned, but are observed for a certain period of time to see if they will commit a possible crime.
HE OBJECTED THE DECISION
Objecting to the court’s decision, Kurz said that he did not prepare well for the investigation commission in question, that he did not remember the details of some issues, but that he did not do these consciously, and that the prosecutor’s office misinterpreted the situation.
BAD SCANDAL
In Austria, in 2019, a video containing the meetings of Heinz Christan Strache, Chairman and Deputy Prime Minister of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), the junior partner in power, with a person who introduced himself as a relative of a Russian businessman, on the Ibiza Island of Spain, was published in the country’s press. had taken place.
In the video in question, former Deputy Prime Minister Strache’s statements containing bargaining elements such as awarding some state tenders to Russia, selling a certain amount of shares of the country’s best-selling newspaper to business people in this country and supporting his party in return were revealed.
Thereupon, a Parliamentary Investigation Commission was established against Strache, who had to resign from all his positions, and some party members with him, and in this context, the testimony of former Prime Minister Kurz was also consulted. Kurz was heard by the commission in 2020, and an investigation was later launched against him for allegedly making false statements on some matters.
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