VIENNA (Reuters) - Former Austrian Interior Minister and European lawmaker Ernst Strasser professed his innocence on Tuesday as his retrial in a cash-for-laws case began.
A Vienna court last year sentenced Strasser to four years in jail for bribery after he was filmed offering to propose amendments to European legislation in exchange for 100,000 euros ($137,700) a year.
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