Austria: Activists occupy alleged oligarch villa
Activists occupied a villa on Lake Attersee in Austria. SHE is said to belong to the family of a Russian oligarch – even if nothing is officially known about it.
Activists have occupied a sea villa in Austria over their alleged connection to a Russian oligarch. The group called for the property in Unterburgau am Attersee near Salzburg to be expropriated. They hang banners with slogans like “Anarchos instead of Oligarchos” on scaffolding. According to the activists, up to forty people were involved in the action, according to the police there were only ten. Officials are in contact with them on site, said a police spokesman for the German Press Agency.
According to the Austrian land register and a register of the Ministry of Finance, the villa is not owned by the oligarch, who is subject to EU sanctions. It therefore belongs to a company that is attributed to a few minutes of the oligarch.
The Directorate for State Security and Intelligence, which is responsible for the allocation of oligarch assets in Austria, has pointed out that it often encounters circumvention structures that conceal the true ownership structure.