Georg H. Jeitler

Georg Hans Jeitler (born 27 September 1979), usually referenced as Georg H. Jeitler, is an Austrian businessperson, and economic forensic. He is known for serving as the judiciary’s expert witness in several Austrian corruption scandals.
== Personal life ==
Jeitler was born in Vienna (Austria) and earned his academic degree in communication science from the University of Vienna, and his Master of Business Administration|MBA in Management Consultancy from the Austrian Institute of Management at University of Applied Sciences Burgenland. In addition to that, Jeitler is a certified management consultant. Georg H. Jeitler is married to Austrian Member of Parliament Carmen Jeitler-Cincelli.
== Business and work ==
In 2000, Jeitler established an advertising agency with his wife Carmen. Over the years, his focus shifted to communications consultancy and business advisory. Since 2011, Jeitler has been an expert witness, serving both for the Austrian judiciary, and private clients.
=== Notable expert witness work ===
Jeitler’s work as an expert witness has been subject to news coverage of several Austrian political affairs.
==== Telekom Austria Affair ====
The A1 Telekom Austria Group| is one of the major party donations' scandals in Austrian politics history. Jeitler’s work led to the conviction of several Austrian politicans and business persons, most notably Gernot Rumpold. In 2004, Rumpold’s marketing and PR firm "mediaConnection" had sold four business concepts to Telekom Austria for EUR 600.000. Jeitler proved that these concepts were of no use, and, therefore, worth significantly less than what Telekom Austria had paid for them. This made it evident that the business concepts were sold to cover an illegal party donation to the right-wing FPÖ. The court sentenced Rumpold, besides other defendants, to three years in prison without parole.
==== Carinthia Brochure Affair ====
During the 2009 state parliament election campaign, the State of Carinthia issued a EUR 400.000 image brochure. It was suspected that this brochure was made so that it would not advertise the State of Carinthia but the political party BZÖ (originated from FPÖ) instead. Eventually, this led to indictment of several BZÖ politicians, including Carinthia’s then governor Gerhard Dörfler. Jeitler proved to the court that the advertising brochure was indeed primarily advertising the BZÖ, and not the state of Carinthia.
==== Tetron Affair ====
The Austrian police, fire brigade, and emergency medical service sought to introduce a standardized digital radio system in 2004. The Tetron consortium (Motorola, Alcatel-Lucent|Alcatel, Telekom Austria) was eventually chosen to develop this system. In investigation proceedings and later in a 2014/2015 court case, Jeitler proved that, in 2008, Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly family|Mensdorff-Pouilly had received a bribe payment of EUR 1.1 million from Rudolf Fischer, then chairman of A1 Telekom Austria Group|Telekom Austria. Lobbyist Mensdorff-Pouilly had made the interior ministry chose Tetron for the new radio system. Mensdorff-Pouilly was sentenced to three years in prison without parole.
==== Mediaselect Affair ====
In 2012, the Austrian judiciary investigated suspicions of obfuscated party donations to the christian-conservative ÖVP. From 2002 until 2008, Austrian companies seemed to have donated to the ÖVP through the media agency Mediaselect. The defendants were incriminated by Jeitler’s findings that billed services had not been rendered at arm’s length and had no value in return.
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