Austrian media unmasked Lukashenka’s lobbyist (Video)

Details of contacts between Austrian Kapsch TrafficCom and Belarus have transpired.

An Austrian informational magazine NEWS has published an interview with the Austrian ex-Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach, which had been given by him rights after the presidential elections in Belarus in 2010.

Gorbach was invited to Minsk by the head of the Belarusian Foreign Affairs Ministry Syarhei Martynau (Sergey Martynov) as an observer in the election and just “an honorary guest”. Gorbach’s statements, who to amazement of most foreign observers claimed that the Belarusian election had been held in keeping with Western democratic standards, shocked many not only in Austria, but in other EU countries as well.

As NEWS writes, today explanation to these strange statements has been discovered.

The Austrian magazine has published some accounting documents of a consultancy firm owned by the ex-Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach. Thus, since September 2007 Gorbach, among other things, had a contract with Kapsch TrafficCom, a firm which paid to him as a consultant Euro 3,000 per month.

As the Austrian journalists have found out, in late February Kapsch TrafficCom received Euro 267 mln from the Belarusian government for creation of a national electronic system, in order to collect road toll for driving the roads of Belarus.

NEWS has also published other documents which are the evidence of Gorbach’s business contacts, in particular, with the former lobbyist of Autrsian Telekom, which owns the Belarusian mobile operator Velcom.

As for the contract between Kapsch TrafficCom and Belarus, in late February BelTA informed about signing this investment agreement as well.

As the agency was told by Ivan Shcherbo (Ivan Shcherba), Transport and Communications Minister, who had signed the document on behalf of the Belarusian side, “there is a long-felt need in Belarus to introduce the system of the Austrian firm Kapsch TrafficCom.”