More real estate deals in Austria

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Almost 94,000 properties were sold in Austria last year, it was announced today (Weds).Land registry records show that 93,807 houses and apartments were sold in 2010, 12.7 per cent more than in 2009. The overall purchase price of the estates ranged around 17.25 billion Euros, up by 5.8 per cent year on year, according to […]

Bribery secured Austrian tank deal, says Czech newspaper

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The Czech newspaper Mlada fronta Dnes reported that Austrian firm Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeuge (SSF) had bribed Czech politicians to secure a tank deal.The newspaper said the deal was the Czech Defence Ministry’s purchase of 107 Pandur II light wheeled tanks from SSF for 538 million Euros in March 2009.It added that one of its journalists posing […]