VIENNA Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was convicted Friday of making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into corruption allegations during his first government. He was given an eight-month suspended sentence.
VIENNA Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz was convicted Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, of making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his first government. He was given an eight-month suspended sentence.
A Vienna court is likely to deliver its verdict on Friday in the trial of former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, who is charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry into alleged corruption in his first government. Once a rising star among conservatives in Europe, Kurz resigned in 2021 after a separate corruption probe opened and has since left politics. The trial, which opened in October, centers on Kurz's testimony to an inquiry that focused on the coalition he led from 2017, when the conservative People’s Party formed a government with the far-right Freedom Party, until its collapse in 2019.