surprise guest Heinz-Christian Strache occurred yesterday in front of the Viennese Chancellery. It was not the whole big stage, but in his speech at the Demonstration against the since 1. November that the ban on Smoking in Austrian gastronomy of the former FPÖ leader and Vice-Chancellor has shown once again that he is still there. A little later he offered via Facebook of his party, even the return, and encourages a “base vote” about who should run the FPÖ “in the future, and the Vienna election in 2020”. However, for a couple of headlines, he had provided already before this weekend. It was not, however, new career plans, but once again, the Ibiza-affair, which led in may to Straches resignation.

Specifically, it is a dance of phone calls, which has led Strache shortly before the publication of the Ibiza Videos. Two days earlier, on 15. May, had reached him, a common request in the “süddeutsche Zeitung” and the “mirror”. There were questions, among other things, to his Meeting with an alleged oligarchs niece, and possible hidden donations to the FPÖ on non-profit associations. And immediately after receipt of this request, Strache was in need of some clarification.

Suspicious phone calls

The list of calls goes back to a so-called call data summary, requested by the “Soko Ibiza” for the mobile phone numbers of Strache and Johann Gudenus, who had been sitting in Ibiza with on the Sofa.

To refer to this Protocol is that Strache on 15. May, 15 minutes after receipt of the request, Gudenus called. The call lasted only ten seconds. Overall, it is said, will he tried on that day, four times, to reach Gudenus, however, it should be no conversation between the two concluded.

shortly after the first call in the case of Gudenus was on the phone Strache then with a man he had called in Ibiza-Video for those Celebrities who “would pass the donations to the court of auditors” at parties: René Benko, a billionaire and major investor. Six minutes took this conversation on the same evening another seven-minute phone conversation followed. One of Strache in Ibiza, referred to alleged large donors, the weapons manufacturer Gaston Glock, also, and of Glocks wife Kathrin Strache had been called immediately after his conversation with Benko. A little later he received four more calls that were assigned by the investigators the Glock GmbH.

“Have you got a Safe?”

in Between, called Strache also busy with a party of friends. A five-minute phone call from Strache at the former Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, the police log on 17. May.

The Austrian magazine “Profil” – quoted from a chat log, in which Strache of the day prior to the publication of the Ibiza Videos on his party friend, the Viennese notary Harald Stefan, asking: “do you Have a Safe in your office, where I can store sensitive documents?” The notary responds that he can keep like. However, when on 24. October, the public Prosecutor’s office, Stefan was approached, was found in his Safe, nothing of this.

the smoke demo Strache took in the ORF to the Reports. It was nothing out of the ordinary, “if you want to store sensitive files somewhere,” he says. And in the case of the telephone calls was a matter of, “you apologized as well from my side, to have here, or there, apparently, is also nonsense spoken.”

Created: 24.11.2019, 22:02 PM