Karl-Heinz Grasser is now in a hurry. The former finance minister in the service of the FPÖ and ÖVP would like the judgment passed against him in the Buwog trial to be worded more quickly, as the “Standard” reports. A few weeks ago, his lawyers submitted an application to this effect. The Vienna Higher Regional Court is responsible, the decision of which is still pending.
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Grasser and his lawyers want more speed
In fact, it was almost eleven months since the oral guilty verdict that assigned Grasser an eight-year sentence in the first instance. The former top politician was convicted by the jury under Marion Hohenecker for infidelity, forgery of evidence and acceptance of gifts by officials. The judge is working intensively on the execution of the judgment, so a spokeswoman for the criminal regional court to the “Standard”, but it concerns “extraordinarily large amounts of data”, the duration of the verdict is explained.
A panel of three at the OLG must now decide whether to set the first judge a four-week deadline. Grasser’s lawyers had already announced that they would turn to the European Court of Human Rights because of the length of the proceedings. The trial alone had lasted almost three years.
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