By Vish Gain for AMLi
THE HOUSE of Austria’s finance minister was searched by federal anti-corruption authorities last week after his suspected involvement in a long and elaborate bribery scandal connected to the country’s powerful gambling industry.
Gernot Blümel, a close ally of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, was named by the Office of the Prosecutor for Economic Affairs and Corruption (WKStA) as a suspect in the ongoing probe into the Austrian government’s questionable relationship with Novomatic, one of the world’s largest gambling companies.
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