00:01Austria's former Conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
00:05arriving at an appeals court in Vienna on Monday.
00:07And there was good news for him as the judges overturned last year's conviction
00:11for giving false testimony to a parliamentary committee.
00:15That verdict followed a four-month hearing
00:17and was the first time in more than 30 years that a former Austrian Chancellor had stood trial.
00:22Kurz has denied any wrongdoing.
00:24Zahlreiche Gerichtstermine gegeben ein Unmaß an Auseinandersetzung mit diesen Vorwürfen.
00:33Ich glaube, Sie haben alle mitverfolgt, wie sehr das zelebriert worden ist
00:38und dass das jetzt alles in sich zusammengefallen ist.
00:41Es ist das rausgekommen, was ich immer gesagt habe,
00:44nämlich dass ich im Untersuchungsausschuss nicht die Unwahrheit gesagt habe
00:48und trotzdem haben die letzten Jahre so stattgefunden, wie sie stattgefunden haben.
00:53The overturning of his perjury conviction and his eight-month suspended prison sentence
00:58removed Kurz's only criminal conviction,
01:00a key obstacle to a potential political comeback.
01:04But prosecutors still have to decide whether to charge him
01:07over potential corruption-related offences
01:09in a separate investigation that forced him from office in 2021.
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