BBC:
Austria's Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has been filmed appearing to offer government contracts in exchange for political support.
The video, filmed secretly shortly before Austria's election in 2017, shows Mr Strache speaking to a woman who claims to be a Russian investor. Mr Strache also appears to hint at a potentially illegal donation system for the far-right Freedom Party he leads.
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The secretly-filmed video shows Mr Strache and Johann Gudenus - also a Freedom Party politician - talking to a woman who claims to be a wealthy Russian citizen looking to invest in Austria.
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In the footage, the woman says she is the niece of a powerful Russian oligarch. She offers to buy a 50% stake in Austria's Kronen-Zeitung newspaper and switch its editorial position to support the Freedom Party. In exchange, Mr Strache said he could award her public contracts, explaining that he wanted to "build a media landscape like Orbán", a reference to Hungary's far-right prime minister.
FT (Paywalled)
The revelations, published in a joint story by German news outlets Der Spiegel and the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Friday evening, have thrown Austria’s ruling government coalition into crisis, raising the prospect of a major government reshuffle, if not a snap election, to be announced in the coming hours.
Mr Strache’s position in power is now considered untenable, according to many in Vienna, with chancellor Sebastian Kurz likely to take a decision this weekend on his deputy’s, and his government’s future.
Strache just resigned!
I'm looking at this guy's wikipedia page and it's just dicks all the way down. What a surprise that a straight-up neo nazi is willing to be Russia's bitch.
if this was america...
wait we had this happen and its just business as usual for the party that was caught doing it.
The guy has big connections to other European Nazi parties btw
AfD, front national, you name it.
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