# How Austria became a refuge for corruption fugitives and a risk for investigative journalists

https://mins.news/en/item/113195

- The Kyiv Independent, 2026-10-23 18:01 UTC
- World
- Original: https://kyivindependent.com/how-austria-became-a-refuge-for-corruption-fugitives-and-a-risk-for-investigative-journalists/

> Two Ukrainian journalists were detained in Vienna while investigating a former Ukrainian prosecutor general who had fled there. Austria’s treatment of the reporters has raised questions about its law enforcement and its role as a refuge for people linked to Ukrainian corruption cases, as well as Russian officials and oligarchs. Prosecutors said the journalists were mistakenly regarded as accomplices of two Ukrainians held on suspicion of espionage. One reporter said police treated them brutally; shattered car glass injured the cameraman.

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