{"id":9652,"date":"2021-08-28T06:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/austria-finds-former-vice-chancellor-guilty-of-corruption\/"},"modified":"2021-08-28T06:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:28:22","slug":"austria-finds-former-vice-chancellor-guilty-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/austria-finds-former-vice-chancellor-guilty-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria finds former vice chancellor guilty of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/Austria-finds-former-vice-chancellor-guilty-of-corruption.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Austria&#8217;s former vice chancellor and far-right politician <strong>Heinz-Christian Strache<\/strong> was found guilty of corruption and received a suspended 15-month jail sentence on Friday over a donation to his populist Freedom Party (FP\u00d6).<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/report.az\/en\/\">Report<\/a> informs, citing Deutsche Welle, that the trial is the first criminal case against Strache in the &#8220;Ibiza affair,&#8221; where he was secretly filmed offering to help a woman posing as a wealthy Russian donor in return for political favors.<\/p>\n<p>The scandal broke when video footage emerged of Strache promising public contracts to a woman posing as a Russian oligarch&#8217;s niece in exchange for support for the FP\u00d6&#8217;s 2017 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which was secretly filmed on the Spanish resort island of Ibiza, brought down the coalition between the FP\u00d6 and the center-right People&#8217;s Party of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and triggered fresh elections.<\/p>\n<p>It also led to an investigation by anti-corruption prosecutors who turned up several other allegations of wrongdoing against Strache and other prominent politicians.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '800789640666009');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/>https:\/\/report.az\/en\/other-countries\/austria-finds-former-vice-chancellor-guilty-of-corruption\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Austria&#8217;s former vice chancellor and far-right politician Heinz-Christian Strache was found guilty of corruption and received a suspended 15-month jail sentence on Friday over a donation to his populist Freedom Party (FP\u00d6). Report informs, citing Deutsche Welle, that the trial is the first criminal case against Strache in the &#8220;Ibiza affair,&#8221; where he was&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/austria-finds-former-vice-chancellor-guilty-of-corruption\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Austria finds former vice chancellor guilty of corruption<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2195,3311,3271,3310,3312,2222],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","tag-austria","tag-chancellor","tag-corruption","tag-finds","tag-guilty","tag-vice","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}