Former Austrian Chancellor and leader of the Peoples Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz addresses the media in Vienna, Austria June 17, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz said on Monday that an email hoax had attempted to implicate him in a video sting scandal that felled the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) and blew up their coalition government.
FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache resigned last month after German media published secretly filmed footage from a 2017 dinner party in Ibiza at which he met a woman posing as a Russian oligarch's niece and appeared to offer to fix state contracts. He denies doing anything illegal.
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