Austrian Prosecutor's office refused to launch an investigation against the former Vice-Chancellor
The Supreme Prosecutor's office of Austria After learning the scandalous videos with former Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian strache found no grounds to start proceedings in relation to strache and his assistant Johanna Gudenus, radio station Oesterreich 1.
"Concrete evidence of the lawlessness of this (video - ed.) should not be" - quoted by the radio written notification of the Prosecutor's office.
Study the full version of the video, excerpts of which were published by the media, instructed the Prosecutor's office for combating economic crimes and bribery. However, German publication refused to provide unedited video footage.
a week before the European Parliament elections, the largest German media simultaneously published materials with a statement about the fact that the Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian strache discussed the possibility of purchasing assets to influence the election with some " Russian ", which, According to strache, is a citizen of Latvia.
German Welt pointed to the fact that captured on video the meeting was a "trap" for policy, acting jointly with his Austrian freedom party for the abolition of anti-Russian sanctions and normalization of relations with Moscow. Strache also called the situation a trap and focused political liquidation, was forced to resign.
Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz did not want to continue the government coalition with the party of strache and announced the holding of early parliamentary elections.
then the Supreme Prosecutor's office of Austria was engaged in check of videos. The Secretary General of the Ministry of justice Christian Pilnacek drew attention to the newspaper Kurier that "there are only clippings of the movie "in which" it is impossible to assess the context."
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