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So it was also the effort of the opposition parties to show the mergers between the gaming industry and the ÖVP, as MPs stated in different tones before the questioning. The Greens want to investigate the question of who influenced who: Novomatic politics, or vice versa. In any case, you can see a “massive influence” of the gaming industry on politics, said Green MP David Stögmüller. For the leader of the SPÖ parliamentary group, Jan Krainer, Liebich-Oswald is a “good symbol” for the merger of the ÖVP and Novomatic. The leader of the FPÖ parliamentary group Christian Hafenecker also described her as an interesting personality in the “ÖVP universe”.
“I don’t hide it from my relatives, but I don’t bring it up all the time,” Liebich-Oswald explained in her survey. He would have told both Nehammer and Sobotka in the course of his work. In Sobotka it was in the run-up to a visit to the Novomatic company “as part of the NÖAAB election campaign”. With reference to the ongoing financial criminal proceedings, he did not want to say exactly what his relationship with his great-uncle would be like. She is being investigated because she has received generous gifts of money privately from Graf. The earl he called his “great-uncle” was his father’s cousin, he clarified in response to a question from SPÖ deputy Christoph Matznetter.
He also once worked for Novomatic, in the legal department of the Novomatic Gaming subsidiary. Former Novomatic boss Harald Neumann only knows her briefly. I have no perception about donating to parties or organizing aprons. I am also not aware of any offerings from the game company, as he emphasized.
The entire survey was characterized by mutual accusations. Liebich-Oswald criticized the MPs for what they thought were dishonest questions. In addition, he repeatedly refused to answer questions regarding his privacy. The leader of the NEOS parliamentary group, Stephanie Krisper, saw this as confirmation of the merger. Because apparently the relationships are so close that privacy can be invoked.
Earlier, an anonymous complaint lodged by the leader of the ÖVP parliamentary group, Wolfgang Gerstl, caused a sensation, which had been leaked to him. Among other things, the leaders of the factions, Tomaselli (Greens), Krainer (SPÖ) and Krisper (NEOS), are accused of trying to influence beforehand the testimony of former Novomatic business partner Peter Barthold. According to Gerstl, there is a suspicion that there was a meeting with Barthold at the green club on July 30. This was “started” by Krainer and Krisper. It was about “designing” the statement in such a way as to disadvantage Novomatic, according to Gerstl: “That represents another low point.”
Krisper identified a “cheap fun stunt” in him. It can be proven that he was at a Sven-Eric Bechtolf reading on July 30. The leader of the green group Tomaselli also described the accusations as “nonsense”. Krainer was amused by the accusations. On the day the secret date is said to have taken place, he was at the Rax.
Krisper, meanwhile, had previously been shot at Sobotka. The fact that he is not presiding over the interview today is proof that “he sees for himself that it does not look good when his former colleague and Graf’s great-niece testify.” Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) was also criticized by Krisper due to recently publicized chats and SMS from ÖBAG head Thomas Schmid. Kurz had to answer a series of questions about whether it was true that he had chosen who would be the members of the supervisory boards of the affiliated state companies. Krisper put another load of Kurz in the room.
Following Liebich-Oswald’s interrogation, which lasted almost four hours, a senior official from the Ministry of Finance was invited. He explained that the specialist department never found out why the gambling amendment, including IP blocking, had been withdrawn. He had learned of the withdrawal of the legal department of Casinos Austria. He had never seen anything like it in his 35-year career. “It was not communicated in the house that it was withdrawn, nor who initiated it, and no reason was given,” said the Treasury gambling expert.
Third, the president of the board of PremiQuaMed and the president of the association responsible for the Chamber of Commerce, Julian Hadschieff, is due to be questioned on Tuesday. It was not initially clear if this would work in view of the time ahead.
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