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The Court of Auditors had denounced the “People’s Committee” case because the SP had not shown the advertisements of the association “Peter Kaiser’s People’s Committee” as a donation in its report. In the case of the favorable leasing of the lake property in Attersee, the SP can now file a complaint with the Federal Administrative Court.
The SP had denounced Governor Peter Kaiser’s personal committee as such to the Court of Auditors. She herself decided on this reporting requirement together with FP and Liste Pilz in 2019. However, the SP had not reported advertisements paid for by the association as party donations. In the process, the party argued that the association acted without consulting Kaiser or the SP. However, the Senate did not believe it and imposed a fine, especially since the website www.wirfrkaiser.at mentioned in the ads links directly to the SP: “It is not plausible that this happened without the knowledge of the party.”
SP announced a complaint
The SP announced a complaint to the Federal Administrative Court on Wednesday. “We cannot understand this decision. According to our legal opinion, we have not been mistaken because we have denounced the donation,” said the party headquarters.
The Attersee case is already pending in the Federal Administrative Court. Here the province of Upper Austria had leased a lake property to socialist youth for decades. The Senate had already imposed a fine of 45,000 euros for 2017 in June, against which the SP appealed. Now he put another fine for the same amount for 2018.
Senate sees in-kind donation from the country
The SP argues that ownership of the lake comes from a property that was Aryanized by the Nazis and later returned, and that the owners would have had a favorable 99-year lease with the SJ when they were sold to the province of Upper Austria. The Senate, for its part, confirms that the rent at a “rent that is not usual in the market” is a donation in kind from the State. And the parties have been prohibited from accepting public donations since 2012. The Federal Administrative Court must now clarify whether the fine was pronounced correctly.
The Senate finally issued a new fine of 2,000 euros for incomplete information in the statement of accounts. The Salzburg SP had borrowed € 300,000 in 2018, but did not record it as income on the balance sheet.
