He then completed compulsory military service as a one-year volunteer with the alpine troops and began studying jurisprudence at the University of Salzburg in 1994.
In his defence, he cited a decision by the Supreme Court of Justice which ruled that intentional withdrawal of share capital from a company was not illegal since the funds were transferred, if only for a "legal second", to the founding account.
[2] Shortly after, Wallentin began representing Hans Dichand, the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the Neue Kronen Zeitung, in a number of legal cases, particularly against the WAZ Media Group.
[4] In 2012, Wallentin gained notoriety as a lawyer and defence counsel for Helmut Elsner, former director of the bank BAWAG P.S.K., in a case which resulted in the Austrian Trade Union Federation owing two billion euro in damages.
Wallentin had researched and concluded that there was no regulation of paper thickness for signature forms, meaning that the newspaper cutout was legally valid for the signature-collecting process.
Another was a photo of an overweight woman wearing a shirt with the phrase "Don't grab me by the pussy", captioned "Leftists worry about things that will never happen."
[15] Wallentin was a guest in ZIB 2 on 19 September, where host Armin Wolf confronted him over numerous false claims made in his columns in the Kronen Zeitung.
Wolf also challenged Wallentin's assertion that, due to immigration, Muslims would make up "30 to 40 percent" of Austria's population in twenty years.