An investigative committee has been running in Austria for almost three months, which deals with the allegations of corruption in the ÖVP.
The background is the so-called advertisement affair, which led to the fall of the then Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in autumn 2021 after extensive house searches in the Chancellery and in the ÖVP party headquarters.
Among other things, it was about surveys that were presumably embellished for money.
And there are other affairs involving tax evasion and illegal assignments.
The ÖVP corruption investigation committee is now supposed to work through all of this.
Files are evaluated and politicians and officials are questioned.
Corruption in the ÖVP
The committee of inquiry has already met more than 20 times.
What has been achieved there so far?
How deeply rooted is corruption in the ÖVP?
That's what this episode of »Inside Austria« is all about.
We explain once again the most important allegations that the U-Committee is about.
And we want to know whether the surveys can really solve the corruption problems in Austria.
In the weekly podcast “Inside Austria”, SPIEGEL and “Standard” look together at the big and small scandals in Austria.
Together with journalists from both editorial offices, we reconstruct cases and events that move the country.
We look into political abysses, follow the investigations into the cause of Sebastian Kurz and his ÖVP.
And inform about an important Austrian topic of the week.