Part-of-the-game affair
As a part-of-the-game affair are the intricacies of the Deputy Carinthian Provincial Governor Uwe Scheuch ( FPÖ ) entered into a citizenship award. He is accused of having offered a Russian investor Austrian citizenship for a donation.
history
In January 2010, the weekly magazine News reported that in 2009 Uwe Scheuch had promised an adviser to a possible Russian investor in Carinthia that he would be Austrian citizens, with part of the investment being made as a donation to Scheuch's then Alliance Future Austria party . Scheuch's statements were made by him in a personal conversation that was recorded on tape; an expert opinion confirmed the authenticity of the tape recording. According to Scheuch, in an interview, no na net, part of the game , in German: of course part of the game that a Russian investor with five million euros in a project receives citizenship. According to the conversation, five to ten percent should go to the party.
Uwe Scheuch saw no problem after the matter became known. Scheuch explained that deserving athletes, artists or investors receive citizenship, and that there are rules of the game for party donations, and the donations are taxed one way or another . At the end of February 2011, Uwe Scheuch was charged with suspicion of taking advantage , the suspicion of bribery , which was also discussed earlier, was not part of the indictment. Scheuch was convinced of an acquittal up to the trial and saw the matter as a political drama .
On August 2, 2011, Scheuch was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, six months of which were unconditional.
The judgment was overturned by the Graz Higher Regional Court on April 19, 2012 and referred back to the first instance because the judge of the first instance judgment had violated the ban on surprise .
On June 25, 2012, the process at the Klagenfurt Regional Court began to be repeated under a new judge. Scheuch again pleaded “not guilty”. Nevertheless, he was found guilty again on July 6, 2012 and sentenced to a fine of 150,000 euros and seven months of conditional imprisonment.
On August 1, 2012, Uwe Scheuch resigned from all political functions.
At the renewed appeal hearing on December 19, 2012 at the Graz Higher Regional Court, Scheuch was again found guilty and sentenced to a seven-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 270 daily rates of 250 euros each, a total of 67,500 euros.
During the National Council election campaign in 2013, the topic was taken up again when a mobile phone game called "Part of the Game - Game" came onto the market.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung : Scheuch was found guilty ( memento of September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), August 2, 2011
- ↑ Six months of unconditional imprisonment for Scheuch (ORF) ( Memento from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Judgment against Uwe Scheuch repealed (Kleine Zeitung) ( Memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ ORF : "Part of the game" process postponed , June 25, 2012
- ^ ORF : "Part of the game": guilty verdict for Uwe Scheuch , July 6, 2012
- ^ Castling in the family circle. orf.at. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung : Uwe Scheuch resigns ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), August 1, 2012
- ^ ORF : Scheuch: Seven months and a fine , December 19, 2012
- ↑ gruene.at - Part of the Game Game . Retrieved March 12, 2018. March 12, 2018