Austria’s former chancellor Sebastian Kurz has been given an 8-month suspended sentence for making false statements, the Vienna Regional Court has ruled. The ruling said Kurz had made false statements to a parliamentary committee inquiry. The court said evidence showed that Kurz had exercised greater influence in the appointment of the supervisory board of the state holding company Öbag than he had admitted before the Ibiza parliamentary committee. Kurz told the committee in 2020 that he had been aware of the events but had not actively intervened. In the case of the appointment of former Kurz…