A bang for the buck at LIVA

A bombshell in the LIVA affair: Supervisory Board member and City Councillor for Culture comes under scrutiny

In addition to Brucknerhaus director Dietmar Kerschbaum (right), City Councillor for Culture Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (ÖVP, left) is now also incriminated in the new KPMG report.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Horst Einöder Harald Dostal Markus Wenzel)

The LIVA scandal is growing with a new explosive accusation: In a report by the auditing company KPMG, a member of the supervisory board of the Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft (LIVA) with political office is now coming under scrutiny for the first time, alongside the Brucknerhaus artistic director Dietmar Kerschbaum, who was dismissed on Tuesday afternoon. It is about inconsistencies in the awarding of a prestigious project.

The almost 20-page audit report is politically explosive: the Linz ÖVP city politician, who also sits on the supervisory board of LIVA, is said to have benefited financially from a contract awarded by the city's event company.