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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's apical tribunal connected Tuesday sentenced erstwhile Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser to 4 years successful prison, dismissing his entreaty against his 2020 condemnation connected corruption charges.
Austria's Supreme Court upheld allegations of corruption raised against Grasser but halved the archetypal condemnation of 8 years handed down against the erstwhile governmental star.
In 2020, a little tribunal recovered Grasser blameworthy of fraud, accepting illicit gifts and falsifying evidence, successful a ungraded centring connected the privatisation of thousands of state-owned homes. Grasser has ever denied the charges.
That verdict had not been legally binding pending appeal.
Grasser, 56, who was Austria's concern curate betwixt 2000 and 2007, was erstwhile a darling of the governmental close successful the country, and is joined to an heiress of the Swarovski family.
(Reporting by Alexandra Schwarz, penning by Dave Graham, editing by Thomas Seythal)
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