Ibizagate: Former Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache faces corruption trialAustria 2021-07-07, by Editor Comments Off 0
A former vice-chancellor of Austria is facing a corruption trial, two years after the news of the so-called “Ibizagate” scandal broke.
Heinz-Christian Strache, appeared in a Vienna court on Tuesday, accused of trying to change laws to favour a private hospital in exchange for donations.
The former leader of the extreme-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), was caught up in a sting while on holiday in Ibiza in 2017.
Ahead of parliamentary elections, he had a drunken meeting there with a woman, who presented herself as the rich niece of a Russian oligarch wishing to invest in Austria.
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A former vice-chancellor of Austria is facing a corruption trial, two years after the news of the so-called Ibizagate scandal broke.
Heinz-Christian Strache, appeared in a Vienna court on Tuesday, accused of trying to change laws to favour a private hospital in exchange for donations.
The former leader of the extreme-right Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ), was caught up in a sting while on holiday in Ibiza in 2017.
Ahead of parliamentary elections, he had a drunken meeting there with a woman, who presented herself as the rich niece of a Russian oligarch wishing to invest in Austria.
Strache was offered to help finance his campaign in exchange for a promise to win public tenders if he were to enter the government.
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