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An Austrian court has sentenced him to a second prison term and a suspended fine for the second time Heinrich Pecinát, the former director of Vienna Capital Partners, media stoma of Fidesz, which is largely responsible for the closure of Népszabadság, writes Népszava. Pecina was in fact a key player in the history of Népszabadság because it sold Mediaworks, which owns the newspaper, to Towards Lőrinc Mészáros to the company with the highest number of newspapers Viktor Orban Close friend.
Népszava recalls that, as one of the three defendants in the so-called Hypo case, Pecina was sentenced for the first time in 2017 to 22 months in conditional prison and a fine of 288,000 euros for fraud. The Klagenfurt court has now commuted the sentence to 18 months in prison, also suspended, and a fine of 144,000 euros, according to the Austrian media of the ORF. The verdict is not yet final.
We previously wrote about the Hypo case: Heinrich Pecina was sentenced to a fine of 22 months in prison for imprisonment and embezzlement and a fine of about 90 million guilders (288 thousand euros) by an Austrian businessman Heinrich Pecina and the Austrian news agency APA . The court ruled in the Hypo-Alpe Adria case in Carinthia on Thursday. The bankruptcy of this financial institution caused a loss of between 5,000 and 7,000 million euros for Austrian taxpayers. Pecina and his company, Vienna Capital Partners (VCP), tried to help the director of Hypo-Alpe Adria Bank with fictitious accounts, who therefore paid significant compensation, according to the court ruling.
Featured Image: Heinrich Pecina, owner of Vienna Capital Partners, at a press conference at Mediaworks, Vienna Capital Partners’ new national media company, on October 1, 2014. MTI Photo: Balázs Mohai
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