Explosive operation
Major raid by police and finance at the justice system
A morning commando raid by finance and police in Vienna on Wednesday: dozens of officers were deployed in a major raid on the 220 million construction site at the provincial court. The "Krone" knows the explosive background.
The court kibitzers and lawyers who streamed into the Gray House on Wednesday morning were astonished. Financial police buses and police patrol cars were everywhere. As the "Krone" found out, it was all about investigations into the billion-euro shadow economy in Austria.
Officers in large-scale deployment
Dozens of officers from the police and the Ministry of Finance were deployed. The focus was on the large construction site in Austria's most historic and best-known court building, also known as the "Gray House", which is 200 years old. The Vienna Regional Criminal Court, the public prosecutor's office and the Josefstadt prison, Austria's largest prison with more than 1,000 inmates, have been undergoing renovation since 2023.
A huge project with a volume of at least 220 million euros, as it involves a total of more than 100,000 square meters of net space, which corresponds to 550 (!) single-family homes. However, the officials also inspected the subway extension underway in front of the building.
Tax fraud is not a trivial offense. It is therefore all the more important that regular checks are carried out by the financial police. All the better if not every inspection leads to charges and there are no complaints to report.
SPÖ-Finanzminister Markus Marterbauer
Construction companies and subcontractors under scrutiny
The explosive background is apparently the suspicion of wage dumping and organized illegal employment at the taxpayer's expense. In any case, the paperwork of the contracted companies and their subcontractors was closely scrutinized.
According to an initial interim assessment, everything was clean for the time being and further investigations are in full swing!
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