Grasser's last fight: judgment in the Buwog process before the OGH!

Grasser's last fight: judgment in the Buwog process before the OGH!

In the Buwog affair, decisive days are imminent for the former Austrian finance minister Karl-Heinz Grasser. The judiciary has investigated Grasser since 2000 after announcing the privatization of 60,000 federal apartments. After years full of scandals and processes, he was sentenced to eight years in prison in December 2020, which results from a judgment, which in a chronology of oe24.at is tracked in detail. The main allegation includes corruption and misuse of his authority in the course of sales, in which damage of up to one billion euros is said to have occurred for the Republic of Austria, as Green politician Gabriela Moser emphasized.

The beginning of the BUWOG affair in 2009 revealed unauthorized payments and a non-transparent procedure for sales processing. Media reports describe that Grasser is suspected of being involved in illegal agreements that influenced the sale of the apartments to the detriment of the taxpayer. Investigations led to house searches and finally charges against Grasser and other participants. In June 2023, Grasser and four co-accused at the Constitutional Court rejected their applications at a time when the general practice had already made recommendations for confirmation of the guilt sayings, as was held on