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In the process of corruption surrounding the privatization of Buwog and the hiring of financing in the Linzer Terminal Tower today, the first defendant, the former Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser, once again explained why a deposit of 500,000 euros in the Meinl The bank did not want proof of payment. That had never interested him, in case of doubt, everything is stored in the bank anyway, Grasser said.
Judge Marion Hohenecker then recalled the possibility of electronic banking, whereupon Grasser said that it was not useful. If a hacker enters his account, he is responsible for the damage.
The ringing of mobile phones caused the resentment of the judge
The former digital minister was more expert in mobile phones. After Grasser's lawyer Manfred Ainedter had grumbled the judge's resentment on his cell phone rings ("this interruption is unreasonable") and sometime later he also rang the second defendant Walter Meischberger, Grasser said that he now knew that there was a button on the mobile phone for airplane mode there. Replica Hohenecker: "Please tell Mr. Meischberger and Dr. Ainedter."
Grass of Praise for Hohenecker
It was striking how much Grasser congratulated the judge today, even though she drew her attention to the contradictions in her statements made. At least one compliment was given by the president. "You have studied law well, you can put that out of action," says the judge, who has so far also shone with detailed knowledge of the prosecution and documents.
But with the courtesies it was once again, Grasser again to the prosecutor. It was so naive to believe that the Crown had assessed both incriminating and relaxing charges, but that was not the case.
Griller assured the official that the importation was prohibited
Judge Hohenecker took the lead defendant's way of money through. First, Grasser had personally personally brought the money in cash installments from Switzerland to Austria. Earlier, the then Minister of Finance had called another Finance Ministry official who had assured him that this import of liquidity into Austria was legally allowed. There was no reporting requirement like today, said Grasser.
500,000 euros transferred
Then he brought the money in cash to Meinl Bank, where he knew the former bank manager Julius Meinl well. This had presented him with a trustee. In July 2005, a banker transferred 500,000 euros into his account at Ferint AG in Meinl Bank. The investment of money has been taken over by Meinl Bank. With the money, various Meinl securities were purchased.
As the money came from his Swiss family, he thought that a Swiss company, the Ferint AG, would be perfect, Grasser said today. He did not know a Swiss bank and the money was then deposited with a Swiss company in an Austrian bank. Assets have also grown well.
The judge asks exactly
Here, the judge has checked: has he obtained statements of deposit? No, said Grasser, during his visit to the bank, he asked about the development of the account. Strictly speaking, the bank should not have given him any information, but only Ferint AG, countered the judge. Grasser then said, after all, he was then Minister of Finance and the whole thing was from the Meinl Bank to him a "service", or even his family compared. Because of the amount of investment, 500,000 euros, it was probably below the perceptual threshold of the private bank, but "stood at the border of attention is the then Minister of Finance "said Grasser. As a result, he also obtained information on asset development. However, he never received statements of deposit
In December 2006, while Grasser was still Minister of Finance, Grasser used the money to invest in a certificate of participation of Hypo Alpe Adria. That was his idea, because Hypo-Investor Tilo Berlin told him about the possibility. The correspondence then ran on the email of co-defendant Walter Meischberger. Grasser justified this by saying that he wanted to separate the hypo-investment from his departmental affairs. Before the beginning of the year, he apparently signed the Profit Sharing Certificate, until mid-January 2007 he was still Minister of Finance.
Grasser did not have access to the Mandarin Account
Grasser also figures on a list of hypo-investors. He was not a member of the advisory committee, but held a conference as a premier before investors, he said today. Officially, it was an investment of Meinl Bank – Ferint AG.
Hypo-Alpe-Adria investment was very profitable for investors – including Grasser – and the money increased to more than 700,000 euros. In August 2008, the money from the certificate of participation was credited to the account of the company Mandarin mailbox. With the previous investment income of Meinl Bank, it was 800,000 euros
This Mandarin account belonged to its Swiss asset manager Norbert Wicki, so Grasser. He did not have access to the account, he was not allowed to sign. On the Mandarin account, three assets were mixed, according to the judge: Wicki money, Walter Meischberger money from the privatization of Buwog and the 800,000 euros from Grasser. According to the prosecutors, the money does not come from Meischberger, but from Grasser in the privatization of Buwog – which Mr. Grasser denies. The mixture of this money with Grasser's "mother-in-law" at the Mandarin sees the pursuit as a burden. Grasser remarked that he did not know what had happened on the Mandarin account. From there, he had his family's money transferred to the Catherine Participation Corporation.
In the morning, the senate of the judge deliberated on the recovery of files concerning the lawyer co-defendant Gerald Toifl. His defense lawyer and Grasser advocate, Norbert Wess, objected to the use of these files because they thought they had been brought too late by the economic prosecutor and of corruption. The lawyer of Toifl was a lawyer. The WKStA rejected the allegations.
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