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Der Firmensitz des Glücksspielkonzerns Novomatic in Gumpoldskirchen.
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Vienna, Gumpoldskirchen – According to a report by the gaming company Novomatic, Falter sponsored a festival of the ÖVP affiliated association “We Lower Austrians in Vienna”. The in Falter The claim made it was an ÖVP Lower Austria festival, rejected by the state party on Friday evening at the request of the APA. Peter Zöchbauer, Novomatic’s lawyer, explained aloud Falterthat the celebration sponsored “only catering for 4,500 euros net.”
The ÖVP Niederösterreich said in a written statement on Friday that “the event on July 25, 2018 was not a celebration of the Lower Austrian People’s Party.” “Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner was invited as a guest of honor,” the state party said.
According to the extract from the association register, the president of the association is Erwin Hameseder, President of Raiffeisen-Holding Niederösterreich-Wien. The association’s treasurer is the former vice president of the ÖVP (from July 2017 to April 2019) and now CEO of Casinos Austria, Bettina Glatz-Kremsner. According to a spokesman for the Lower Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) on Friday evening, Mikl-Leitner himself does not have a statutory role in the association, but holds the honorary presidency. In an OTS of the federal ÖVP of July 20, 2018, the date of the association’s summer party was also announced: “18:30 StS Mag. Karoline Edtstadler participates at the invitation of President Erwin Hameseder and LH Johanna Mikl-Leitner in the summer party ‘Wir Niederösterreich (sic!) in Vienna’ (inner courtyard of the Palais NÖ, Herrengasse 13, 1010 Vienna) ”, it said in the broadcast at the time.
“Greetings from Hanni Mikl-Leitner”
Noisy Falter The sponsorship is supposed to stem from conversations seized by the corruption prosecutor. According to this, the current head of Novomatic communications, Stefan Krenn, informed the head of the company, Harald Neumann, who is now under suspicion of bribery, about the party.
“Hello Harald” (…) “I must send you a warm greeting from Hanni Mikl-Leitner. Last night at the reception ‘Wir in Niederösterreich’ I said the greeting on his behalf and Hanni gave a hymn of praise of 2 minutes into your speech, “quote. Falter of chats. The prosecution maintains aloud in its report Falter He also stated that not only Mikl-Leitner, but also Edtstadler and the head of the Vienna ÖVP, Gernot Blümel, were present at the festival.
NEOS: “What was the consideration?”
Criticism of the ÖVP came from NEOS on Friday: “Another case of ‘Die ÖVP – powered by Novomatic’,” Stephanie Krisper, head of the NEOS faction on the “Ibiza” investigative committee, said in a broadcast. “Novomatic’s statement that they ‘only’ sponsored catering for 4,500 euros net is ridiculous: the ÖVP receives millions in party funds, so it can also afford a buffet,” said the deputy. “As with the cash flow in Wolfgang Sobotka’s direct environment, I wonder: What does Novomatic expect from such services? What was the Novomatic return policy? “
For crises there is an “illegal and hidden party financing system” to be discovered. “A system that HC Strache made public in Ibiza, but that the FPÖ certainly did not invent. The ÖVP was able to do that long before that. And the ÖVP is not only there now, but right in the middle. That becomes clearer day by day. ” (WHAT)
