He didn't manage that, but his latest double moved him up to 17 league goals, which is just six fewer than what Mo Salah and Son Heung-min required to share the Golden Boot last season as joint-leading scorers. Haaland looked set to register his fourth hat-trick of the season, with both goals coming in the first half. Kevin De Bruyne added a third after Leandro Trossard had briefly put the result in doubt. The Norway international struck twice in his team's 3-1 win over Brighton at the Etihad Stadium to continue his remarkable scoring streak. Schmid alleged Kurz also asked him to make a statement to exonerate Kurz of all blame.Erling Haaland took his goal tally to 22 across all competitions, as Manchester City moved within a point of Premier League leader Arsenal on Saturday. “I promoted Kurz and the OeVP through the federal ministry of finance, used the resources of it to support the advancement of the OeVP under Sebastian Kurz,” Schmid added. “Yes, he was aware of that… I only implemented this tool because I received the order from Kurz”, Schmid said referring to the commissioned polls. Since June, Schmid has been interrogated for “15 full days” by the federal prosecutors, they said.Īccording to the testimony, Kurz allegedly knew that the polls aimed at helping him win the OeVP’s chairmanship and the chancellor’s office were funded by the Austrian finance ministry. Schmid, himself implicated in the major corruption scandal, had approached federal prosecutors in April, requesting to be a key witness, the state economic crime and corruption prosecutor (WKStA) said on Tuesday. “This is about democracy in our home country and trust in democracy, which is once again being massively shaken,” he added, calling corruption “a paralysing poison”.Īccording to Van der Bellen, new legislative elections are not justified at the moment. “A transparent, comprehensible and, above all, perceptible general restructuring… is needed.” “We need a complete overhaul,” President Alexander Van der Bellen said in a televised address, alluding to Austria’s political culture being repeatedly tainted by corruption. In statements to federal prosecutors leaked to media and reported on Tuesday, Thomas Schmid, a former senior official of the Austrian finance ministry and close aide of the ex-chancellor, incriminated Kurz and his conservative People’s Party (OeVP) by accusing them of misappropriating public money to pay for polls, which were skewed to boost Kurz’s image. Austrian politics has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals with Kurz’s resignation in 2021 marking a spectacular fall for a politician who had been hailed as the “Wunderkind” of Europe’s conservatives.
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