Austria sting scandal ‘has nothing to do with us’

The Kremlin yesterday said the corruption scandal involving Austria’s far-right party that caused the government to collapse has nothing to do with Russia.

“This is an incident that has not and could not have anything to do with us,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists in Russia’s first official comment on the scandal.

The scandal was prompted by the publication by two German newspapers on Friday of footage from a sophisticated hidden-camera sting in 2017.