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At the Commerzialbank Mattersburg AG, which closed in mid-July, all drawers were cleared and all receipts checked. An SV Mattersburg VIP card for the 2019/20 Bundesliga season, which was awarded to former SPÖ Governor Hans Niessl, has been drawing astonishing attention since the weekend.
Niessl immediately emphasized that he had never used this compost. However, the head of the ÖVP club, Markus Ulram, leader of the parliamentary group on the previously rather weak investigative committee for the Commerzialbank case, insisted that Niessl, who left the state government in February 2019, was “a guest permanent in the expensive VIP club “of SV Mattersburg,” together with all the SPÖ -Famous of Burgenland “.
On Monday Niessl elaborated on the allegations, calling it “false.” In the “last few years” you may have attended “four or five games” of the SVM and the VIP Club, one game per season. Consumption was always billed through his office or the sports department: Niessl was always a sports official in his almost 19-year tenure.
He never accepted a VIP card. “About 15 years ago,” Niessl said Monday, a VIP card was once sent to his office, but it was immediately returned. Furthermore, it “never had commercial relations” with the bank, which, like SVM, was run by Martin Pucher.
Sorry or complaint
Niessl expects an apology from Ulram and ÖVP national manager Patrik Fazekas “as minimal decency”. If this does not happen, the 69-year-old, who has been president of the federal sports organization “Sport Austria” for a year, will not rule out claims against ÖVP leaders for damage to his reputation.
When asked by KURIER if he had received “gold bars” or similar gifts from Pucher for special birthdays, Niessl said his special birthdays in office (50 in 2001 and 60 in 2011, note) were charity events. All gifts were immediately passed on to charities, in 2001 these were donations worth 270,000 shillings. Niessl assured him that he had no influence on the recipients.
The KURIER also wanted to know if Niessl had ever heard of the TPA test reports on the credit union (mother of the Commerzialbank) during his time as governor (2000 to 2019). Niessl: As far as he can remember, they were never a problem, and he was never a financial advisor himself.
In 1995, the state assumed inspection supervision of the cooperative after Pucher left the Raiffeisen Association and founded the commercial bank. State oversight is also the focal point in the U-Committee of the state parliament, which meets again on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.
The audit reports of the TPA auditors have yet to be submitted by the state. But they should – from what is claimed – really exist. That is, in the state finance department, although according to the division of the state government all these years the economic council would have been responsible. Finances have always been managed by the SPÖ since 1995, economic agendas only since the state elections this year.
