Strache was forced to resign in 2019, when the so-called "Ibiza gate" burst.
German media then published a video in which Strache, or "the Red Bull brother from Austria" as he called himself, partyed in Ibiza with a woman he thought was a relative of a Russian oligarch, and offered lucrative public contracts in exchange for traction aid to right-wing populist FPÖ in the election campaign.
The mobile phone was seized
The current case has no immediate connection to the Ibiza affair, but was discovered when police seized Strache's phone during the investigation into the 2019 scandal. plastic surgery and gambling millionaire.
In exchange, Strache is said to have received 10,000 euros in party grants and an invitation to Corfu.
This is not the first time Strache, which now runs the party "Team HC Strache", is in bad weather.
In the run-up to the 2017 election, the Süddeutsche Zeitung published photos of how the politician at a young age was out in the woods with neo-Nazis, and the secretly filmed Ibiza video showed how he called journalists "the biggest whores on the planet".