For weeks, DER STANDARD had been trying to get an interview with the head of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Economic Association, Walter Ruck (ÖVP). Ruck is currently heavily criticized because of media reports about non-transparent appointments to social security positions with Ruck family members – and because of an office for Ruck himself in Hernstein Castle (Lower Austria), which was described as sophisticated. Ruck denies allegations of postal fraud and held back from giving interviews.
