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The alleged mastermind of the Ibiza video, which led to the overthrow of the Austrian government in 2019, has been arrested in Berlin.
The Vienna prosecutor’s office and the Berlin police confirmed on Friday the arrest of the German press agency, initially reported by the Austrian newspaper “Die Presse”. Berlin police on Thursday attacked the person who had been wanted on a European arrest warrant for more than a year.
Strache was open to corruption
In the video, which was recorded in 2017 at a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza, the then Austrian Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the right-wing FPÖ spoke to a suspected Russian oligarchy about illegal party donations and large-scale orders, among other things. , and seemed prone to corruption. Strache has always denied all allegations.
(Video: Youtube / Falter)
The publication of video excerpts from “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.
Procedures for cocaine trafficking
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”, he is charged with the illegal production of sound and film recordings and cocaine trafficking.
According to the Vienna prosecutor’s office, the German authorities must now decide whether to initiate a surrender procedure.
