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Otto Kerbl appointed BAK Director

Otto Kerbl is the new Director of the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAK). Martin Stecher takes over as Deputy Director.

The top executive positions at the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption were filled in a public tender process. After completion of the multi-stage application procedure and hearing of the Presidents of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Administrative Court and the Supreme Court, Otto Kerbl was appointed as Director and Martin Stecher as Head of the Operational Service for a functional period of five years.

Otto Kerbl began working at the Ministry of the Interior in 2009 and took over as Head of Department 1 (Resources, Support and Legal Affairs) at the BAK in 2014. He was entrusted with the function of Acting Director of the BAK on an interim basis in July 2020 and has since assumed its strategic-conceptual management.

The newly appointed BAK Director is supported by Martin Stecher, who had also taken over the function as Head of the Operational Service and Deputy Director of the BAK on an interim basis as of July 2020. Previously, the former gendarmerie officer headed the Single Point of Contact of the BAK and the Internal Affairs Unit.