Austria's former-Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has announced he is suing several people in connection with the secret video that ended his political career.
Issuimg a statement on his public Facebook page on Friday, he said that he was suing three people he suspected of being behind the now infamous Ibiza video that prompted his resignation.
He also attempted to shut down rumors that there were more videos containing more salacious material.
"Contrary to what the media claim, there is no footage that shows me consuming drugs and committing sexual acts.", he said.
He called the claims such a tape existed "absurd."
In the post, the ex-leader of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) apologized again for his actions, calling them "stupid and, particularly in the realm of politics, totally unacceptable."
Later on Friday, reports emerged that the three parties in Strache's lawsuit were a Vienna lawyer, a detective, and a female imposter. Germany's Bild tabloid reported that the incident in Ibiza was set up by the trio, who deny any wrongdoing as they were attempting to uncover political irregularities.
Last week, a pair of German media outlets published part of a nearly seven-hour video that shows Strache in a villa on the Spanish island of Ibiza a few months before Austria's October 2017 national vote.
In the video, he discussed an exchange of lucrative government contracts for help winning the election with a woman claiming to be the niece of a Russian oligarch.
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