On 4 December, Politico reported that Austria’s former Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for his involvement in a major corruption scandal. He was found guilty of providing insider information to a private investor ahead of the sale of 60,000 state-owned apartments in 2004. Grasser pocketed around €9.6 million for his part in the deal.
https://www.politico.eu/article/karl-heinz-grasser-austria-finance-minister-corruption
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