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Austria: a former minister indicted in a corruption case

2022-11-29T18:16:12.484Z


A former Austrian minister was indicted on Tuesday on the sidelines of a case of embezzlement of public funds which brought down last year...


A former Austrian minister was indicted on Tuesday in an embezzlement case that brought down former Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz last year.

Sophie Karmasin, 55, is accused of "

aggravated fraud

" for having concealed income in order to receive compensation following her departure from the family ministry in 2017, the prosecution announced in a press release.

This resulted in "

a loss of approximately 78,500 euros for the Republic of Austria

", he specified.

After her ministerial post, she founded a consulting firm and in this context, she is also accused of having agreed with a senior official, also charged, to be sure of winning between 2019 and 2021 calls for tenders launched by a ministry.

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She faces three years in prison.

His indictment stems from the Ibizagate affair, which continues to destabilize Austria.

The broadcast in 2019 of a video shot with a hidden camera on the Spanish island of Ibiza led to the launch of numerous investigations against politicians and the seizure of mobile phones which continue to reveal their secrets.

The scandal brought down far-right former vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache before catching up with Sebastian Kurz, who was forced to resign in October 2021 on corruption charges.

Justice has also begun to take an interest in Ms. Karmasin because they suspected her of having carried out flattering false opinion polls, commissioned by the entourage of Sebastian Kurz, to accelerate his political ascent.

It is within the framework of these investigations that they detected other possible crimes attributable to the former minister, to the government between 2013 and 2017. In October, the environmentalist president Alexander Van der Bellen was moved by the impact of these cases on public opinion, while the far right has once again become the leading political force in Austria in the polls.

Source: lefigaro

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