The former Austrian chancellor was addicted to the well-known mobile game, left between 2,000 and 3,000 euros a month and paid with his party card.
His name is Heinz-Christian Strache, he was vice chancellor of Austria and had to leave his post in mid-2019 for what became known as “the Ibiza case”, a controversy caused by a video in which Strache was seen recognizing the corruption of his party, advancing how he planned to manipulate public opinion and offering contacts to a Russian oligarch in exchange for political support. But far from complying with a controversy, our friend the vice chancellor is back in all newspapers and now for reasons closer to the video game industry.
Schon 2015 kam Ibiza-Anwalt M. mit Spesen-, Mandatskauf- und Drogen / Vorwürfen gegen Strache zum Bundeskriminalamt. Ermittelt wurde nicht, weil M. in der Folge nichts mehr sagte.
Jetzt will @steffi_krisper wissen, warum der Sache nicht nachgegangen wurde. https://t.co/70AlqmdNPI pic.twitter.com/N0g02f5j6R– Georg Renner (@georg_renner) December 21, 2019
As we arrive from Neue Zürcher Zeitung (one of the longest-running newspapers in the Austrian country, something like New Journal of Zürich), Strache's successors have thrown the carpet and exposed even more weavings related to him. Among them, the journalist Goerg Renner points out that the former vice chancellor was “addicted to Clash of Clans” and that he spent between 2,000 and 3.00 euros a month in the Supercell game. An invoice he paid using his party's credit card, to which he spent all expenses. Although he has not yet shared the figure that amounts to his bill, nor the data of his profile in the game, Strache says he used the card “by mistake” and that he already returned the money in his day.
Iran banned it as "addictive"
As Oscard Wilde said, "there is only one thing in the world worse that they talk about you, and they don't talk about you." Although Clash of Clans has been involved in news that surely would not have wanted to star, the truth is that they always enhance how addictive it is and there could be no better better publicity. In addition to his relationship with Heinz-Christian Strache, the Supercell mobile title also made headlines after being banned in Iran "because of the addiction it produces in youth." Two surreal situations that are surely not going to be the last ones and that show once again how "ready" the human being is sometimes.
