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The FPÖ had excluded its longtime former boss, Heinz-Christian Strache, from the party after confusion over the Ibiza video and an expense issue. Photo: Herbert Neubauer / APA /…dpa
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The video of a villa in Ibiza eventually led to the overthrow of the Austrian government. The alleged mastermind of the secret recordings, a private detective, has been arrested in Berlin.
Wien (AP) – The alleged mastermind behind the Ibiza video, which led to the overthrow of the Austrian government in 2019, was arrested in Berlin.
The Vienna prosecutor’s office and the Berlin police confirmed the arrest of the German press agency, initially reported by the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse”.
Special forces of the Berlin police attacked the person who had been wanted by European arrest warrant for more than a year on Thursday morning in Berlin-Pankow.
In the video, which was recorded in 2017 in a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza, the later Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the right-wing FPÖ had spoken with a suspected Russian oligarchy about illegal party donations and large-scale orders, among others. things, and seemed prone to corruption. Strache has always denied all allegations. The publication of video excerpts from “Spiegel” and “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in May 2019 led to Strache’s resignation from the ÖVP-FPÖ government of Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and subsequently to new elections.
The private detective, who appears in the video as a partner to the decoy and is said to have threaded the trap and wired the house, went into hiding after the video was released. According to the “press”, he is charged with the illegal production of sound and cinematographic recordings, as well as cocaine trafficking. According to the Vienna prosecutor’s office, the German authorities must now decide whether to initiate a surrender procedure.
Strache commented on the arrest Friday with satisfaction. “I am happy for the arrest of the criminal mastermind of the Ibiza trap (even after so long) and now I await a quick and complete explanation and also the discovery of the other accomplices, clients and patrons!”, He shared on his Facebook. Side with.
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