Overview
- Anti-corruption prosecutors filed the indictment with Vienna’s criminal court after approval by the Vienna higher prosecutor’s office and the Justice Ministry, which had consulted the Weisungsrat.
- Prosecutors charge Wolf with bribery and trying to induce official misconduct, the former tax office head with abuse of office, bribery and a secrecy breach, and Hans-Jörg Schelling with trying to induce misconduct.
- The indictment says Wolf first offered the deal at a 2018 meeting at the Guntramsdorf rest stop, seeking approval of about €630,000 in tax remission, a measure that lets the state forgo already assessed tax.
- According to the filing, the finance office head approved the request about six weeks later, failed to record the meeting or messages in the case file, did not inform other staff, and in 2019 shared confidential case information with Wolf.
- Ministry oversight later flagged the write-off as unlawful, the Federal Finance Court annulled it and the top administrative court upheld that ruling, and Wolf still sits on the Porsche SE and Schaeffler boards as the case moves forward.