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The “right hand” of Öbag’s boss, Thomas Schmid, is interviewed at the Ibiza-U-Committee. High on the agenda is the “Gemstone Project” – the purportedly turquoise blue planned sale of the Federal Mail Computer Center.
In May 2019, the so-called “Ibiza Video” turned Austria’s political landscape upside down. It led to the outbreak of the turquoise blue coalition and catapulted the then FPÖ chief and vice chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, to the bench. The political reevaluation now follows a year later in the Ibiza parliamentary inquiry commission. “Die Presse” keeps you informed of the Hofburg updates throughout the day.
Who are the respondents on September 17?
- The “Gemstone Project” is moving today to the center of the Ibiza investigation committee, that is, the sale of the Federal Computing Center (BRZ) to the partially private postal service, which is apparently under turquoise blue. Edith hlawati, President of the Supervisory Board of Post AG, and head of the Public Law and Regulatory Management team of Post AG, Torsten Marx, deliver.
- But before that there will be a Executive Assistant at Öbag questioned by the parliamentarians, more precisely, the “right hand” of Öbag’s boss, Thomas Schmid, against whom “Causa Casinos” is investigating.
U Committee updates:
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Right at the beginning of today’s U-Committee, the leader of the ÖVP parliamentary group, Wolfgang Gerstl, again criticized the course of the same: “The commission is degenerating more and more into a stage for everyday political problems.” referred, mostly not considered as permissible, questions to the president of the board. OMV mineral oil company, Rain soul, to corporate strategy. Soul had “been held for five hours,” Gerstl recalled the day before.
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The opposition immediately justified its action: “We will continue where we left off yesterday,” announced the leader of the SPÖ parliamentary group, Jan Krainer. The “Edelstein project” would be underway Statements of the respondents “in total contradiction” with the files presentedhe said.
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The first person to provide information was the executive assistant of the Holding State Öbag called to the stand. As an administrative intern at the Ministry of Finance, he had worked closely with the then general secretary of ÖVP and later with Öbag’s boss Thomas Schmid, and in April 2019 he practically joined the state holding company as its “right hand man”. He justified the appointment of Schmid as sole boss: Öbib was “neither efficient nor optimal”, that was different with the “Öbag”. The background: According to former Casinos CEO Alexander Labak, Schmid’s appointment at Öbag was linked to Peter Sidlo’s as CFO of Casinos Austria AG (Casag).
- To your participation in the “Gemstone project“Said the assistant: In 2018 the objective was” to examine a possible cooperation between the Post Office and the Federal Computing Center. “And he stated:” When I receive an order from Thomas Schmid, I do not ask why I ask, but with how often and until when “. General Manager Position Georg Pölzl knew the idea, including the Chief of Staff of the Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP). The one at that time Finance Minister Hartwig Löger (ÖVP) was not very enthusiastic about the presentation of the project.
(Red./APA)
