"Then he is dead, so he can emigrate." "DiePresse.com

Around the Buwog lawsuit against former Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grbader (FPÖ / ÖVP) and other defendants came to the public with new documents this weekend. "Standard" and the ORF radio cited an explosive mail traffic from September 2009 shortly after the announcement of the Buwog case. According to defense lawyers, however, e-mails have nothing to do with the cause

As Ö1 and "Standard" quote the correspondence, a tax accountant asked Gerald Toifl, a tax lawyer co-accused , to disclose Grbaders Depot. No, because he's dead, but Meischi's, and we have to be creative. – "How dead? How creative?" – "Mausetot, then he can emigrate Not very creative, the plan is already."

The relevance of the investigation files for the process was initially unclear. Grbaders' lawyer Manfred Ainedter told ORF, badyzing the more than 1,000 pages of documents, to what extent presented here was taken out of context or omitted as exculpatory. Grbad defender sees no problem for his client

Toifl defender Oliver Scherbaum said loud and clear that the conversation had nothing to do with Buwog's cause. He had gone to a warrant around the Swarovski family, who had taken care of the clerk. Scherbaum also finds in the police report nothing incriminating. Lawyers criticize police investigators for illegally evaluating evidence in multiple locations

Email correspondence comes from a report from the Burgenland Provincial Police submitted by the National Police Directorate and the prosecutor during the last week of negotiations in July. has been introduced. These are files that were badessed after a search of home in Toifl.

Several defense lawyers asked the court to refrain from using these documents. The Senate chaired by Judge Marion Hohenecker has not ruled on the motions yet. Trading continues – with a break of half a day on August 1 – only in mid-September

"All but the acquittal would be a big surprise"

The second lobbyist accused, Walter Meischberger, publishes the "Courier". Process: "According to the facts and the process after 46 days of trial, anything but an acquittal would be a big surprise to me," he said in the interview

The indictment raises Grbader Meischberger, Peter Hochegger and Ernst Karl Plech suggest that they had collected bribes in the privatization of federal apartments and the leasing of financing in the Terminal office building Linz Tower. The accused rejected this, only Hochegger filed a partial confession.

-> "Standard" Report
-> "Kurier" Report

(APA)