Scandal in the secret service: That wine fears process abort!

Scandal in the secret service: That wine fears process abort!

The focus in Austria's most turbulent judicial drama is again in the focus of Hans-Jörg Jenewein and Egisto Ott: A second indictment against the former FPÖ National Council MP that Enenewein could falter the already ongoing secret trial process before the Vienna State Court. That is accused of commissioning an employee of the then Minister of the Interior Herbert Kickl to request information about BVT officials who participated in a meeting for European intelligence services and to request a recorded statement by a SPÖ politician, according to the reporting of Kleine Zeitung .

The process has been pursued since the beginning of November, but the Situation is uncertain. The new indictment could lead to the negotiations summarized and continued in front of a lay judge instead of a single judge. This would significantly complicate the legal situation, since the judge also has the opportunity to cancel the individual process in order to negotiate the topics. The previous negotiation days have already discovered that Ott may have been found to unveiled the dominant secrets, which further complicates the situation of the accused, reports Press .

legal consequences and process course

The indictment against that wine contains the potential for far -reaching effects on the current case. Judge Andreas Böhm said that if in doubt, the demolition of the single judge procedure could be justified in order to protect the principle of connexity. The process could drag on the next year, while those wines and Ott vehemently contradict all allegations. So far, however, the court has not made a specific date for the oral negotiations for the new indictment, which is why the legal uncertainties continue to exist and remain unpredictable for the accused.

the public is offered a dramatic spectacle, while legal questions the two gentlemen and their possible punishments move into the distance. The clarification of the allegations is urgently necessary to make the underlying problems in the former BVT and its connections transparent.