“Former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz was sentenced on Friday to eight months in prison,” the publication notes.
It should be noted that the former head of government gave incorrect testimony to the investigative committee about whether he was a member of the supervisory board of the state holding company ÖBAG.
The article states that former cabinet minister Bernhard Bonelli was also found guilty and given a six-month suspended prison sentence.
Kurtz could have received up to three years in prison.
It was previously noted that the guilty verdict would cast a deep shadow on Kurz’s conservative People’s Party, which has been in power in Austria since 1987.
