Lawyer Ramin M., the alleged financier of the “Ibiza video”, is charged: The Vienna public prosecutor has filed a criminal complaint for misuse of audio recording or listening devices and for a violation of the data protection law.
05.07.2022 11.00
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Specifically, the second offense is about “data processing with the intention of profit or damage,” reports the “Standard”, citing the prosecution. The maximum sentence is one year.
“civil society motivated project”
The Viennese lawyer M., who is presumed innocent, admitted his involvement shortly after the “Ibiza video” appeared more than three years ago. “It was a project motivated by civil society, in which investigative journalistic paths were taken,” it said at the time. The lawyer argued at the time that he wanted to uncover grievances.
The public prosecutor had previously investigated M. for deception – “to the detriment of Heinz-Christian Strache and Johann Gudenus”. M. had introduced the supposed oligarch niece known from the video to ex-FPÖ club boss Gudenus. She had specified that she wanted to buy a property from Gudenus. This procedure was dropped by the public prosecutor’s office, as were investigations into forgery of documents.
Charges against Hessenthaler dropped
Just last week, the Vienna public prosecutor’s office confirmed that the proceedings against the second mastermind behind the “Ibiza video”, Julian Hessenthaler, had been discontinued. However, Hessenthaler is in prison: At the end of March, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, among other things, for cocaine trafficking.