“Biggest Scandal in Europe since WW II” – Ibizagate: How Soros Journalists Brought Down the Austrian Government – IOTW Report

“Biggest Scandal in Europe since WW II” – Ibizagate: How Soros Journalists Brought Down the Austrian Government

GatewayPundit:

A year ago, a leaked video seeming to show the head of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party Heinz Christian Strache conspiring with Russians to take over the top local tabloid brought down the center-right government. In the court case, video has emerged exonerating Strache and his colleague Johann Gudenus. Apparently, the Soros-related “journalists” who broke the story deliberately omitted the exonerating parts.

It was a set-up straight out of the 1970s “Mission Impossible” series: In 2016-17, the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party was leading the polls in Austria on the back of their opposition to Angela Merkel’s illegal Open Borders policy for all of Europe. In a scenario echoing the Fusion GPS “Trump Tower Meeting”, charismatic party head Strache and the equally popular Ex-Youth Wing head Gudenus were lured to a villa on the trendy island of Ibiza, Spain with Gudenus’ wife to meet with the alleged niece of a Russian oligarch going by the name of Alyona Makarova, who was promising investments in Austrian media in return for lucrative government contracts. “Makarova” has since disappeared and is wanted for questioning by Austrian police.

The meeting turned out to have been a sting staged with intel know-how and equipment by unknown actors. The villa was fully wired for audio and video, producing roughly 20 hours of  recordings between July 22 and 25, 2017, without Strache and Gudenus’ knowledge. During a vodka-fueled meeting, the politicians, the woman posing as Alyona Makarova and her companion, private detective Julian H., discussed a possible buyout of leading Austrian “Krone” newspaper, currently owned by German Funke publishing house, which has close ties to the ruling leftist German Social Democrat party.

For unknown reasons, these recordings were then withheld for two years, possibly in an attempt to blackmail Strache and Gudenus. During this time, the Freedom Party joined a government coalition with Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his center-right Austrian People’s Party. The Freedom Party received the Interior Ministry and proceeded to implement a strict anti-illegal-immigration policy, renaming “Refugee Centers” into “Departure Centers”. Controversially, Interior Minister Herbert Kickl also ordered an elite police SWAT raid on the Austrian FBI department which had been spying on the Freedom Party for years (think Bill Barr raiding the Comey FBI with ATF agents, for example). The center-right coalition was highly popular in Austria and emerged as a vocal counterweight to Angela Merkel’s Open Borders EU policy.

On May 17, five days before the EU elections, six selectively edited minutes of the video were released by Süddeutsche newspaper and Spiegel magazine, seeming to indict Strache and Gudenus of offering kickbacks to the Russian “oligarch’s niece” in return for gaining control of the leading Austrian tabloid. In the ensuing scandal, the government collapsed, Strache’s and Gudenus’ political careers seemed over. In snap elections Sept. 2019, the Freedom Party lost their junior coalition spot in the government to the tiny Green Party, which rules Austria with Kurz’s People’s Party now.

Strache and Gudenus have consistently denied any wrongdoing and maintained they insisted any arrangements would have to be legal and on the level. Now, transcripts newly released by Austrian prosecutors seem to confirm that version of the story. KEEP READING

17 Comments on “Biggest Scandal in Europe since WW II” – Ibizagate: How Soros Journalists Brought Down the Austrian Government

  1. Soros and his family need to leave the planet. Maybe we can get SpaceX to launch another car with them in it showing George happily frozen at the wheel while the family frolic in the backseat. One of Georges hands out the window waving a happy goodbye as they plummet into the Sun. Hell, I’d forgive Musk all his past transgressions if he could travel agent this for us.

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  2. This guy is pure evil. He sure as hell doesn’t need to screw with people’s lives for financial gains. I hope one of the countries that wants his ass hung tracks him down before he dies.

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  3. I’d rather see him and is offspring sent to a nazi concentration camp, starved and worked to near death, and then given a gas “shower”.

    Not very Christian-like I know, but some people do not deserve God’s grace. Besides, he thinks he’s like God anyway, so he can forgive his own sorry ass.

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  4. Once again let the Hungarians try him for his war crimes during World War 2 against the Hungarian people when Soros was a young Nazi sympathizer and hang the bastard. He is the real evil Ernst Stavros Blofeld, the leader of SPECTRE and SMERSH personified from the James Bond movies and needs to be eliminated.

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  5. You could take out Soros and his kids, literally or legally. Wouldn’t matter beyond temporary satisfaction. He’s seeded and developed so many organizations in so many areas/institutions, his “legacy” will long outlast his time on this earth.
    He should’ve been dealt with long before he made his first million. When you bankrupt an entire nation’s financial system, the fact he wasn’t held to account points to the corrupt political officials in charge at that time.

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