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epa07587347 Austrian Chancellor Sebastian kurz delivers a press statement at the Federal Chancellery in Vienna, Austria 20 May 2019. Austrian Vice Chancellor and FPOe (Freedom Party of Austria) party leader Heinz-Christian Strache who on 18 May 2019 stepped down from his post, as he was caught in a corruption allegations scandal. German magazine 'Der Spiegel' and newspaper 'Sueddeutsche Zeitung' published on 17 May 2019 a secretly recorded video which appeared to show Strache in Ibiza, Spain, in July 2017, meeting an alleged niece of a unknown Russian oligarch who wanted to invest large sums of money in Austria. In return for election campaign donations, Strache is alleged to have promised public contracts in the event of his party joining the government. EPA/CHRISTIAN BRUNA