If tax officer G. didn’t exist, ÖVP club boss August Wöginger, the suspended head of the Austrian tax office Siegfried Manhal and trade unionist B. would probably not be in court on suspicion of postal corruption. Without G., the then head of the Braunau-Ried-Schärding tax office, Christa Scharf, might have become head of the department; would not have defended himself and triggered the proceedings.
