This CEN case document preserves a 2014 story filed by Michael Leidig about Austrian proceedings involving Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, BAE Systems, EADS, Eurofighter contracts and alleged bribery/corruption linked to defence procurement. The item is significant because it shows the kind of complex original reporting CEN was capable of producing: detailed international business, legal and political material involving front companies, plea deals, prosecutors, arms contracts, offshore payments, named intermediaries and court proceedings in Austria. The article also records that while the UK Serious Fraud Office dropped parts of its investigation, the Austrian case continued, with the story explaining why a conviction could have wider commercial consequences for the Eurofighter consortium. It matters in the wider CEN/BuzzFeed evidence chain because it undermines the idea that CEN was merely a supplier of lightweight viral oddities, showing instead that the agency also produced serious, document-based investigative material on major international corruption allegations. Read alongside the Paul Foot Award and other investigative-work documents, this item helps demonstrate the breadth of CEN’s reporting record and the editorial labour behind stories that did not fit BuzzFeed’s later caricature of the agency.