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06VIENNA864
2006-03-22 15:31:00
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Embassy Vienna
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IIC: GOA HAS INITIATED PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS

Tags:  PREL PGOV IZ AU KFIN 
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UNCLAS VIENNA 000864 

SIPDIS

PASS IO/PSC FOR LIZ PARKER

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV IZ AU KFIN
SUBJECT: IIC: GOA HAS INITIATED PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS
AGAINST AUSTRIAN COMPANIES

REF: STATE 40595

UNCLAS VIENNA 000864

SIPDIS

PASS IO/PSC FOR LIZ PARKER

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL PGOV IZ AU KFIN
SUBJECT: IIC: GOA HAS INITIATED PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS
AGAINST AUSTRIAN COMPANIES

REF: STATE 40595


1. Stefan Benner from the Ministry of Justice's Department
for Criminal Matters told us March 21 that the Viennese
Public Prosecutor's Office had initiated pre-trial
investigations against Austrian companies, which Independent
Inquiry Committee (IIC) reports mentioned as possible
suspects of fraud and corruption in the Oil-for-Food
Program. Benner said the IIC reports do not provide much
information beyond the names of the companies. To obtain
additional information, a prosecutor is traveling to UN
headquarters in New York on March 22 to examine the
respective files.

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