A lower court ordered an end to the investigation in April, which the Vienna appeals court upheld on the grounds that Austria had not provided enough of its own evidence, the office of AustriaвЂ™s chief legal counsel Wolfgang Peschorn said in a statement on Wednesday evening. A criminal complaint brought by AustriaвЂ™s Defense Ministry in 2017 prompted the investigation. November 13/20: Fraud Investigation Done For Good Austrian prosecutors upheld a decision to end a criminal probe into alleged fraud by aviation and defense group Airbus and Eurofighter in connection with a 2 billion-dollar (в‚¬1.7 billion) fighter jet purchase in 2003, the counsel for Austria said Wednesday evening. As an interim solution between the Draken and the Typhoon, the service operated Swiss F-5 Tiger aircraft. Before Austria procured the Typhoons in 2003 leading to many years of bribe an fraught investigations, the countryвЂ™s Air Force was flying the Saab J35 Draken. However, in an interview with the daily newspaper вЂћDer StandardвЂњ Tanner has voiced plans to procure an interim aircraft from a neutral country until parliament decides to buy a new fighter aircraft. It is still unclear, which fighter will replace the Eurofighter Typhoon. January 8/21: Interim Replacement? Austrian defense minister Klaudia Tanner wants to sell the countryвЂ™s Eurofighters as soon as possible.

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