Overview
- Prosecutors accuse Strache of breach of trust for seeking a payout from a life insurance policy originally intended to benefit FPÖ Wien in the survival case.
- In 2014, Strache and a co-accused allegedly arranged a change making him the beneficiary without a decision by a party body.
- The policy, taken out by FPÖ Wien in 2007, was structured to support Strache’s family in case of death but to pay the party if he survived the term.
- Investigators say he later tried to persuade FPÖ figures to authorize payment after his 2019 resignation.
- A conviction for breach of trust carries a potential sentence of one to ten years, while Strache denies wrongdoing and claims the transfer was proper.