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mo4ch:>‘No proof of crime’: Austrian prosecutor won’t launch probe over leaked video scandal | Mo4ch News

Austrian prosecutors have examined the scandalous videotape which cost vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache his job and said they couldn’t find any grounds to launch an investigation over its content.“There’s no specific proof of a crime being committed coming from this [the video],” Oesterreich 1 radio revealed, citing the statement from the prosecutors.The Justice Ministry’s General Secretary Christian Pilnacek earlier warned that there were only extracts of the footage available, which would make it impossible to assess the full context of what was going on.A major political crisis unfolded in Austria on Friday after German papers, Spiegel and Suddeutscher Zeitung, published a video of Strache and another high-ranking member of his rightwing populist Freedom Party (FPO), Johann Gudenus, talking to a woman who claimed to be a “niece of a Russian oligarch.”They discussed how the woman could support their campaign during the 2017 general election in Austria in exchange for future p…