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For over a year, the alleged mastermind of the Ibiza video was wanted by European arrest warrant. Now the police have arrested him in Berlin. The Vienna prosecutor and the Berlin police confirmed the arrest on Thursday. First, the Austrian newspaper Die Presse reported on it.
In the video, which was recorded in 2017 in a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza, the later Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the right-wing FPÖ had spoken with a suspected Russian oligarchy about illegal party donations and large-scale orders, among others. things, and seemed prone to corruption.
Strache has always denied all allegations. The publication of excerpts from the video by SPIEGEL and »Süddeutsche Zeitung« in May 2019 led to Strache’s resignation from the ÖVP-FPÖ government of Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and subsequently to new elections.
The private detective, who appears in the video as a partner to the decoy and is said to have threaded the trap and wired the house, went into hiding after the video was released. According to the »Presse«, in addition to the illegal production of sound and cinematographic recordings, he is also charged with trafficking in cocaine.
According to the Vienna prosecutor’s office, the German authorities must now decide whether to initiate a surrender procedure.
