Uwe Scheuch

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Uwe Scheuch (born June 15, 1969 in Villach ) is an Austrian farmer and former politician ( FPÖ , later BZÖ and FPK ) who was convicted once for accepting gifts from officials and twice for infidelity. From 2006 he was a member of the provincial government of Carinthia , from 2008 as first deputy governor. From 2009 he was party chairman of the Freedom Party in Carinthia. On August 1, 2012, he resigned from his party and government offices.

biography

Sternhof (2007), the hometown of Uwe, Kurt and Robert Scheuch

Uwe Scheuch attended elementary school in Mühldorf from 1975 to 1979 and the Bundesrealgymnasium in Spittal an der Drau from 1979 to 1989 . After graduating from high school, Scheuch studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna from 1989 to 1996 and completed his studies with a thesis on The Farmer's Forest in Upper Carinthia and the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. from. Scheuch then did military service in 1997 .

Scheuch has been a farmer and forester on his own farm since 1990 and was managing director of an agricultural company in Hungary from 1997 to 2000. He has been the independent managing director of Mühldorfer Sand- und Kieswerke GmbH since 1998 and has headed a technical office for forestry since 2001. Reports in the Austrian media caused a sensation that after 2000 the Hungarian authorities issued an arrest warrant against Uwe Scheuch on suspicion of insurance fraud as a result of car pushing. The reason were allegations made by his then subordinate József Tibor Liska, who was convicted of pushing cars in Hungary. In Austria, after the allegations became known in 2005, the public prosecutor's office investigated Uwe Scheuch and closed the proceedings on May 29, 2006. Furthermore, civil law proceedings were pending in this context to clarify insurance-related issues. This ended with a comparison.

Political career

Uwe Scheuch was regional party chairman of the FPÖ Carinthia from 2001 and a member of the federal party leadership from 2002. From 2001 to 2006 he was Vice-President of the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry in Carinthia and from 2001 was Deputy Chairman of the Freedom Farmers in Carinthia. In addition, from 2002 he was a member of the board of the Federal Agricultural Committee of the Freedom Peasantry and from December 14, 2003 to May 15, 2005 Federal Chairman of the Freedom Peasantry.

Scheuch was a member of the National Council from December 20, 2002 to November 8, 2006, where he joined the BZÖ after the split in the FPÖ. From November 9, 2006 to October 23, 2008, he was the BZÖ's spokesman and has been a member of the Carinthian state government since November 9, 2006 . Until October 23, 2008 he was regional councilor for economy, education, labor market, housing subsidies, nature conservation and national parks and rose to the position of 1st deputy governor after Jörg Haider's death . In addition, on November 15, 2008, he was elected regional party leader of the Carinthian BZÖ.

On December 16, 2009, the Carinthian BZÖ split off from the Federal BZÖ and since then, as the FPK , has been striving for close cooperation with the FPÖ. Both parties will remain independent with their own bodies. Scheuch was party chairman of the newly created party.

On August 1, 2012 Scheuch resigned as a member of the state government and FPK party chairman at a press conference. He has had enough of the agitation against himself and wants to withdraw completely from politics. His brother Kurt Scheuch was chosen as his successor .

Criminal proceedings

Part-of-the-game affair

Since January 2010, the corruption prosecutor's office has been investigating Scheuch, who is suspected of having promised Austrian citizenship to several Russian people in return for party donations ( part-of-the-game affair ) and actively worked towards their granting. The Justice Department then approved a benefit-taking charge. 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. In the renewed appeal hearing on December 19, 2012 at the Graz Higher Regional Court, he was again found guilty and legally binding for accepting gifts from public officials in accordance with Section 304 (2) of the Criminal Code to a seven-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 270 daily rates of 250 euros, a total of 67,500 Euros, condemned.

Brochure Affair

On November 5, 2013, the public prosecutor's office for business and corruption announced that Scheuch, Gerhard Dörfler , Harald Dobernig and Stefan Petzner were being charged in the so-called “brochure affair” of infidelity . The defendants were accused of using an advertising brochure for Carinthia as a business location in a slightly modified form as the BZÖ's election brochure in the 2009 state election campaign. According to the indictment, the damage is said to have amounted to 219,000 euros. In 2014 the charges were dismissed by the Graz Higher Regional Court after appeals from the defense lawyers. However, after obtaining an opinion from the expert Georg Jeitler, the public prosecutor renewed the indictment, as announced on November 2, 2015. This became final, as the appeals of the accused were rejected by the Graz Higher Regional Court this time. Scheuch pleaded not guilty in the trial, which began on January 17, 2017 at the Klagenfurt Regional Court. Nevertheless, on March 16, 2017, he was not finally sentenced to an additional fine of 22,000 euros. Scheuch appealed against the judgment. On April 19, 2018, the Supreme Court upheld the judgment on appeal. The appeal on the private law claims, however, was followed and the private parties referred with their claims on the civil law route.

Infidelity proceedings

In May 2017, the Economic and Corruption Prosecutor's Office announced that Scheuch would be charged with abuse of authority. As a regional councilor, he is said to have instructed a former employee to confirm invoices as factually and substantively correct, although there was no or only partial consideration, which is said to have resulted in damage of 23,000 euros. The allegations arose when this speaker confessed in court and seriously incriminated Scheuch by claiming that the former regional councilor knew about all the events and discussed the 2007 and 2008 bills with him. The employee was sentenced to 21 months of conditional imprisonment and the media entrepreneur and former KTZ sole owner Hansjörg Berger, who was also involved in the affair, to 17 months of conditional imprisonment. Scheuch objected to the indictment. However, the OLG Graz did not allow this, which made it legally binding. However, the General Procurator filed an annulment complaint in order to uphold the law , because she wanted the Supreme Court to clarify whether instead of abuse of office a "provision of infidelity" should be charged, which would reduce the possible range of sentences from five to three years. In a public hearing on December 12, 2017, the Supreme Court shared the view of the General Procuratorate. Scheuch denied the allegations in the proceedings at the Klagenfurt Regional Court that began on April 18, 2018. Nevertheless, on June 5, 2018, he was again found guilty of infidelity and sentenced to an additional penalty of 110 daily sentences of 40 euros each, a total of 4,400 euros. The judgment was confirmed in the instance and is now final.

Causa think tank

On July 3, 2019, it became known that the public prosecutor's office had filed a criminal complaint against Scheuch and two other people for accepting benefits. According to the indictment, he is said to have commissioned an employee in 2006 as regional councilor to organize money for the BZÖ or his personal election campaign by means of kick-back payments with the help of the "Ideenschmiede" advertising agency. Although Scheuch denied the allegations in the process, he was sentenced on August 5, 2020 for accepting gifts and taking bribes to an additional sentence of six months conditional imprisonment.

family

Scheuch lives in Mühldorf in Carinthia, is married and has three children. His grandfather was Robert Scheuch , co-founder of the Freedom Party and a formerly active member of the NSDAP .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As original as Gorbach . The press. December 19, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  2. ^ "Profile": Temporary Hungarian arrest warrant against Uwe Scheuch . APA-OTS. July 2, 2005. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Investigations against BZÖ-Scheuch . Vienna Online. July 10, 2005. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  4. ↑ Parliamentary question by MP Hannes Jarolim (PDF; 26 kB) Austrian Parliament. January 20, 2010. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ Answer to the parliamentary question by Justice Minister Claudia Bandion-Ortner (PDF; 35 kB) Austrian Parliament. March 19, 2010. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  6. ^ Cooperation between the FPÖ and the "Freedom in Carinthia" - "The Freedom in Ktn." Are leaving the BZÖ . Freedom Party of Austria. December 16, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  7. ↑ FPÖ and Carinthian BZÖ merge . The standard. December 16, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ Uwe Scheuch withdraws from politics . Small newspaper. August 1, 2012. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved on December 19, 2012.
  9. ↑ FPK party congress: “Now even more so” . ORF.at. September 2, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  10. ^ "Russians Affair": Uwe Scheuch is threatened with trial . The press. January 26, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  11. ^ "Part of the game": Scheuch has to go to court . ORF.at. February 25, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  12. ^ Carinthian Vice-Vice President Uwe Scheuch is charged . Small newspaper. February 25, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  13. ^ After the corruption ruling: Scheuch remains despite prison sentence . Small newspaper. August 2, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  14. ^ Six months of unconditional imprisonment for Scheuch . ORF.at. August 2, 2011. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  15. ↑ Uwe Scheuch's process all over again . Small newspaper. April 19, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  16. ^ "Part of the game" process postponed . ORF.at. June 25, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  17. ↑ Guilty verdict for Uwe Scheuch . ORF.at. July 6, 2012. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  18. ^ Uwe Scheuch convicted with final and absolute judgment. Die Presse , December 19, 2013, accessed February 20, 2013 .
  19. ^ Scheuch: Seven months and a fine . ORF.at. December 19, 2012. Accessed December 19.
  20. ↑ Infidelity and bribery: charges against ex-FPK head. In: orf.at. November 5, 2013, accessed November 5, 2013 .
  21. ^ BZÖ election brochure: Further investigations are necessary . kaernten.ORF.at. August 26, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2015.
  22. ↑ Wolfgang Rössler: This report supports charges against Carinthian BZÖ politicians | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 19, 2017, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on August 6, 2018]).
  23. ^ Charges against the BZÖ election campaign brochure. In: orf.at. November 2, 2015, accessed November 2, 2015 .
  24. ^ BZÖ election brochure: Fixed charges . kaernten.ORF.at. May 24, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.
  25. ↑ Trial against Scheuch, Dörfler and Dobernig starts on January 17th . www.kleinezeitung.at. December 6, 2016. Retrieved December 7, 2016.
  26. ↑ Four convictions in the BZÖ process . orf.at. March 16, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  27. ↑ Dörfler and Scheuch fight against judgments . orf.at. March 22, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2017.
  28. ↑ Uwe Scheuch has to go to court on April 18th . Small newspaper. March 23, 2018. Retrieved March 24, 201.
  29. ↑ Appointment notice: Public hearing in the criminal case against Stefan P, Gerhard D, DI Uwe S and Mag. Harald D. (No longer available online.) In: Supreme Court. March 23, 2018, archived from the original on March 28, 2018 ; accessed on March 28, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ogh.gv.at
  30. ^ Election brochure rulings against Dörfler and Scheuch confirmed. Retrieved April 19, 2018 .
  31. ↑ Supreme Court confirmed the conviction of Gerhard D. and DI Uwe p . Supreme Court. April 19, 2018. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
  32. ^ Another indictment against Uwe Scheuch . orf.at. May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  33. ^ Ex-FPÖ politician Uwe Scheuch charged again . Small newspaper. May 24, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  34. ↑ Scheuch objects to the indictment . ORF. June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  35. ↑ The indictment against Uwe Scheuch is final . ORF. October 12, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  36. ^ Complaint against Scheuch indictment . ORF. October 27, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
  37. ↑ Judgment in the criminal case against DI US: Directives on private business administration are not abuse of authority . Supreme Court. December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
  38. ↑ Unfaithfulness trial against Uwe Scheuch postponed ( German ) ORF. April 18, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
  39. ↑ Uwe Scheuch convicted of infidelity ( German ) ORF. June 5, 2018. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  40. ↑ Uwe Scheuch for bribery in court ( German ) ORF. July 31, 2020. Accessed July 31, 2020.
  41. ↑ Uwe Scheuch has to go back to court . ORF. July 3, 2019. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
  42. ↑ Suspicion of taking advantage: Ex-FPÖ politician has to go to court again . Small newspaper. July 3, 2019. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
  43. ^ Causa Ideenschmiede: Uwe Scheuch has to go to court again . Courier . July 31, 2020. Accessed July 31, 2020.
  44. ↑ Uwe Scheuch in court for bribery . ORF. July 31, 2020. Accessed July 31, 2020.
  45. ↑ Scheuch again found guilty . ORF. August 5, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020.
  46. ↑ Analysis of the Scheuch trial: Richter thwarted the liberal role play with judgments . Small newspaper. August 5, 2020. Accessed August 5, 2020.
  47. ↑ The coup of the gentry farmers . The press. December 18, 2009. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Scheuch, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian farmer and politician (BZÖ, FPÖ), member of the state parliament, member of the National Council, convicted criminal
DATE OF BIRTH 15th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Villach