A report by ZiB 2 on Monday evening has legal consequences. The Chancellor Selbastian Kurz’s employee, who is at the center of the shredder affair, has reported the suspicion of Abuse of office refunded. That gave it ÖVP known on Tuesday afternoon.
In ZIB 2 is “express and literal” from a project report of the economic & Corruption Prosecutor been quoted. “In addition – apparently from a minutes – from a meeting in the Ministry of Justice quoted, “says the ÖVP communication. It is an act or files that are subject to official secrecy. The disclosure to the media Abuse of office.
“Restricted group of people”
It was clear that “only a restricted group of people had access to these files, in particular the persons concerned with the act of business and Corruption Prosecutor, at most the Public prosecutor Vienna, at most the public prosecutor’s office Vienna“.
The history: had in summer 2019 Arno M., an employee of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, five printer hard drives from the Chancellery for shredding to the company Shredder. As a result of this questionable operation, an advertisement is being made to the Soko Ibiza received. Arno M. was from the police picked up at his former workplace in the ÖVP headquarters and brought to his apartment for a “voluntary inspection”. The police searched the apartment.
Notes on the client
This is exactly where the criticism of the Corruption Prosecutor on which the ZiB 2 reported on Monday. One of the investigating police officers ran on a list of ÖVP municipal councils in 2015. He is said to have taken “problematic actions” in the investigation into the shredder affair because he had not confiscated Arno M.’s laptop, which was located at the ÖVP headquarters, nor the cell phone. They suspected that the devices could have found references to the client for shredding outside the home WKStA.
The Ministry of the Interior rejects the criticism: the prosecutor has not given an order to confiscate laptops and cell phones.
The WKStA says she didn’t share files.
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