A high-ranking official who had made a career under former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) and held a leading position in the General Secretariat of the Interior Ministry until the end of the turquoise-blue coalition was acquitted of treason on Friday at the Vienna Regional Court. After a two-day hearing, a jury came to the conclusion that neither the incriminated abuse of office nor the alleged violation of official secrecy could be proven.
The decision is not final. The prosecutor made no statement for the time being. He had accused the official of having leaked secret information to the then FPÖ club chairman Johann Gudenus and an online medium.
Accessed on October 15, 2021 at 02:26 am on https://www.sn.at/politik/innenpolitik/freisschul-fuer-ex-spitzenbeamten-im-innenministerium-110931340