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The interrogation in the Ibiza-U Committee ended this Tuesday after more than twelve hours. In the evening, the third respondent of the day, the head of PremiQuaMed, Julian Hadschieff, was interviewed. The donation of the private clinic operator Uniqa to the ÖVP amounting to € 50,000 in two installments in 2017 and 2018 was discussed in more detail. Hadschieff consulted his confidante several times about this.
The donation was made through the director of the Vienna ÖVP economic association, Walter Ruck, as well as through the ÖVP federal manager, Axel Melchior. Ruck approached him and promoted the ÖVP campaign. Melchior told him more about the campaign at a meeting in the federal ÖVP party. The donation was promised in August 2017 before the National Council election, the first 25,000 euros were transferred after the election. “At that time, we reported: Yes, we will participate in the donations,” Hajjieff said.
The cash benefit, paid not by Hadschieff personally, but by the company, was legal, compliant with the law and allowed by PremiQuaMed’s compliance regulations, the managing director emphasized. The donation was decided unanimously by the management and was also reported to Uniqa. Group compliance was reported in writing. At the time the donation was decided, the chairman of the PremiQuaMed Supervisory Board was the subsequent ÖVP Finance Minister Hartwig Löger. He informed them even though the donation was not subject to the supervisory board, according to Hajieff.
Hadschieff justified the party’s donation by PremiQuaMed to the ÖVP under then-new party leader Sebastian Kurz with a “very refreshing new force” who came out in favor of the business location, by a reduction in bureaucracy and a reduction in the tax rate. . They donated as many thousands of citizens and businessmen in the “great donation campaign of the ÖVP”. He personally did not donate to the ÖVP, he was approached as a representative of the company. For FPÖ member Martin Graf, it was clear that Hadschieff had donated “foreign money” and thus reduced Uniqa’s dividend by 50,000 euros.
The Ibiza U Committee continues on Wednesday. Respondents are Signa Holding founder Rene Benko, KTM CEO Stefan Pierer and Uniqa boss Andreas Brandstetter.
Those: APA
