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Originally Posted by allinontheturn
You hear about this wellju?
No, even tho I read a thick newspaper every morning while breakfast.
The mountain peaks are not really high for the Alps and it all stems from the biggest economical crimes done in Austria ever.
Our ex financial minister Karl Heinz Grasser (husband of the Swarovski slut) who evidentially stole billions! from the government and the people by enacting laws a decade ago so he can screw Austria for billions in the next years planned this ahead 20 years ago already.
He privatized a lot of government-owned institutions to allegedly help our budget at this time, enabling him to create a fraud bigger than Madoff ever accomplished.
All the "private" contracts made since that involved ridiculous amounts of bribing, selling off Austrian citizenships to Russians who then invested in soccer stadiums that never were built and even created a fake bank to cover up his fraud scheme.
The fun part is, he is so well connected into the highest ranks of politics and justice and probably has enough documents to blackmail the **** out of the complete old government and even some members of the actual one.
His lawyer is seen drinking coffee with the justice minister on a regular basis although that's completely illegal because there is an obvious conflict of interests.
He could take a dozen of high ranked politicians with him into prison, that's why all he gets for betraying the government as well as every tax payer for billions is a 15.000€ fine.
He even earned money with the scandal for dishing out adhortatory letters to every news agency&reporter there is in Austria.
Law system is just sick over here and he planned and executed that over decades, creating laws during his time as financial minister that now make his activities only semi-legal.
Last edited by wellju; 06-14-2011 at 02:25 PM.