Austria's former chancellor Sebastian Kurz has won his appeal against a conviction for giving false testimony to a parliamentary committee. The court's ruling overturns last year's judgement and eight-month suspended prison sentence for the former political star.

An Austrian appeals court said on Monday that it had overturned conservative former chancellor Sebastian Kurz's recent perjury conviction and the resulting eight-month suspended prison sentence.

Austria's former chancellor Sebastian Kurz was acquitted on Monday in connection with a corruption scandal that brought down his government six years ago. The so-called Ibiza scandal centred on Heinz-Christian Strache,