A huge poster advertising a film called “Kurz - The Film” about the former Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz covers a scaffolding next to the city highway in Vienna on September 7, 2023. AFPPIX: Austria's former chancellor Sebastian Kurz goes on trial this week for allegedly giving false testimony, the highest-profile figure implicated in wide-ranging corruption scandals that have rocked the EU member.
Kurz, 37, has repeatedly dismissed the accusation levelled against him, saying he is keen to prove his innocence in court. Co-accused with Kurz are his former chief of staff Bernhard Bonelli and Bettina Glatz-Kremsner, a former deputy head of Kurz's conservative People's Party . About three quarters of cases involving false testimony have ended in convictions, according to justice ministry statistics.