Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was convicted in the trial of perjury.
The former leader of the popular ÖVP, who has always rejected the accusations, did not tell the truth before the commission of inquiry into the 'Ibiza' scandal of the former FPÖ leader Heinz Christian Strache, thus the accusation of the Prosecutor's Office for economic and anti-corruption crimes Wksta .
The trial is based primarily on the chats of Thomas Schmid, former CEO of the state holding Oebag and former trusted man of Kurz who is now collaborating with the investigators.
The media interest is enormous.
The former chancellor and former leader of the Austrian People's Party was sentenced to eight months' probation.
Instead, the sentence inflicted on his former cabinet chief, Bernhard Bonelli, in the context of the same trial is six months' probation.
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