"Need a payout"

830,000 euros at stake: Strache faces long prison sentence

Things are getting tight for Heinz-Christian Strache in a side thread of the expenses affair. The former Vice-Chancellor is suspected of attempted embezzlement. It involves a rewritten life insurance policy, 830,000 euros - and up to ten years in prison.

Being FPÖ leader is not only politically dangerous. And so it came about that - jumping back to 2007 - a life insurance policy from Hilmar "Hump Dump" Kabas was rewritten to the then party leader Heinz-Christian Strache.