Former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz now has two tabloid newspapers Kronenzeitung And today Disclosure of who he is working with in the USA: In the future he will work as a “global strategist” in California for the investment firm “Thiel Capital”. The former ÖVP politician, who resigned over corruption matters, had previously confirmed that he would start a new job in the US from February.
Peter Thiel is an American investor of German origin and, among other things, co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir, which also works with US intelligence. Express had previously reported that Kurz would be working at Palantir – which the company denied several days after the report. Till is an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump, who received Kurtz as an advisor in the White House.
At the beginning of the year, Thiel was awarded the Frank Schirmacher Prize. For the awards show, Thiel wanted Kurtz to pay tribute. The two met at the Munich Security Conference in 2017. Kurz thanked him on Twitter for the meeting and wrote that he was happy to meet Thiel and talk to him about digitization. Curtis wants to move between the US and Europe.
In Austria, it is expected that more information will be revealed about the conversations of a brief confidant Thomas Schmid that the public prosecutor has evaluated. Kurz first resigned as prime minister and then left politics altogether when the prosecution’s allegations became known. Kurtz and ten of his associates, among other things, are being investigated over suspicion that fake polls on the Boulevardblatt, funded with taxpayer money Austria To promote the rise of the ÖVP politician.
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