2024-04-16 13:31:36
Following the latest revelations in the Russia espionage affair involving former Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Egisto Ott, former FPÖ representative Hans-Jörg Jenewein has rejected all allegations. His relationship with Ott was a “loose contact” and not a close acquaintance. At no time was he aware that Ott or people around him might be people with connections to the Russian secret service, Jenewein’s lawyers explained.
At no time were there any flows of money or other donations to Ott, whom Jenewein met in the summer of 2018, or anyone close to him, according to the legal representatives’ statement published on Tuesday. No money was paid for the data from the work cell phone of the former Interior Ministry cabinet chief Michael Kloibmüller. They were sent to Jenewein anonymously on a USB stick.
Jenewein did not deny the job offer
Jenewein did not deny a job offer at Wirecard, but at the time of Ott’s proposal in autumn 2019, all that was known regarding Wirecard was “that it would be a ‘financial service provider’,” said the lawyers. Jenewein also never worked for the group. With regard to the documents that Jenewein is said to have received from the cabinet of the then Interior Minister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ), the lawyers explained that their client, who was then the FPÖ parliamentary group leader in the BVT investigative committee, had the documents anyway because of his work .
Jenewein puts finds during a house search into perspective
Regarding the items found during a search of Jenewein’s house in 2021, the lawyers emphasized that no objects or propaganda materials with a Nazi connection were found in Jenewein’s house or apartment. It was said that the brass knuckles came from his father’s inheritance and had been placed in the anteroom for disposal along with other things. The leftover ammunition was left over following visiting a shooting range. Jenewein also had a gun ownership card at the time. A comment (“nice holiday souvenir”) on a photo of a T-shirt with Hitler’s portrait that had been sent to him was a “flippant, sarcastic remark,” it said.
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