Prosecutors say Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry right into a scandal that introduced down his first authorities
BERLIN — Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been charged with making false statements to a parliamentary inquiry right into a scandal that introduced down his first authorities, prosecutors stated Friday.
An indictment towards Kurz, his former chief of workers, Bernhard Bonelli, and one other unidentified particular person was filed on the state courtroom in Vienna, the prosecutors’ workplace that investigates corruption {cases} stated in a press release. The courtroom stated Kurz will go on trial on Oct. 18.
The costs outcome from an investigation that was launched in 2021, when Kurz was nonetheless chancellor. It facilities on his testimony to a parliamentary probe that centered on alleged corruption in his first authorities, a coalition with the far-right Freedom Get together which collapsed in 2019.
Kurz pulled the plug on that authorities after a video surfaced displaying the vice chancellor and Freedom Get together chief on the time, Heinz-Christian Strache, showing to supply favors to a purported Russian investor.
Within the corruption case, Kurz is accused of giving false proof relating to his function within the organising of a holding firm, OeBAG, which administers the state’s function in some firms.