Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was charged with lying to parliament, the penalty for which is three years in prison.
Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was charged on Friday with giving false statements to parliament, the penalty for which is up to three years in prison.
On Friday, the Economic and Corruption Prosecutor’s Office released a 108-page criminal complaint against the former chancellor, alleging that he had given false statements before a parliamentary into an alleged corruption scandal that collapsed his first government in 2019. According to Austrian criminal law expert Robert Kert, it was not illegal for the chancellor to have been involved in the decision to appoint Schmid to the board of Öbag, which manages several large companies in the country including telecom and energy giants.
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