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“We cannot understand the decision”
The SPÖ announced a complaint to the Federal Administrative Court on Wednesday. “We cannot understand this decision. According to our legal opinion, we have not been wrong because we have denounced the donation,” he told the APA from the party headquarters.
The Attersee case is already pending in the Federal Administrative Court. The state of Upper Austria had rented a plot of land on a lake here to socialist youth for decades. The Senate had already imposed a fine of 45,000 euros for 2017 in June, against which the SPÖ appealed. Now it has imposed another fine of the same amount for 2018.
The SPÖ argues that ownership of the lake comes from assets Aryanized by the Nazis and then repaid and that the owners had a cheap lease with the SJ for 99 years when they were sold to the state of Upper Austria. The Senate, however, affirmed 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 imposed a new fine of 2,000 euros for incomplete information in the statement of accounts. The Salzburg SPÖ obtained a loan of 300,000 euros in 2018, but did not record it as income in the statement of accounts.
