Kurz was sentenced in February last year and risked a multi-year prison sentence, but received an eight-month conditional sentence.
In the trial, the politician has been accused of providing false information during a testimony in a parliamentary investigation into corruption. He has maintained that he is innocent and claimed that the process is politically motivated.
The investigation concerned, among other things, the circumstances surrounding the appointment of a senior executive at a state-owned company. In the committee hearings, Kurz down his own role in that process.
Sebastian Kurz was seen as a political prodigy when, as leader of the conservative party ÖVP, he became Austria's Chancellor at the age of 31 in 2017. He resigned in the autumn of 2021 due to corruption allegations.
