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The FBI is going to drop these documents this month. Natascha, and the Austrian police have been lying this whole time. I just cant believe it.

The father of Natascha Kampusch has accused her kidnapper’s best friend of being his accomplice in a book that also claims Austrian authorities covered up a catalogue of police errors in the case.

A secret FBI report into police cover-ups over the kidnapping is due to be made public this month.

Justice officials were forced to call in neutral investigators from the US agency after Natascha’s father Ludwig Koch accused local police of widespread political corruption.

He says the strategy to 'avoid a police scandal' allowed the kidnapper’s alleged accomplice Ernst Holzapfel to escape.

Natascha was snatched off the streets of a Vienna suburb in 1998 as a 10-year-old girl on her way to school.

She escaped eight-and-a-half years later after enduring years of confinement in a basement cell and sexual abuse at the hands of her abductor Wolfgang Priklopil.

Her father says that the evidence leading to Holzapfel after Natasha’s escape - along with evidence that would have led to Priklopil being identified days after the abduction - was ignored.

This included a record of telephone calls the pair had made to each other and Holzapfel’s role in helping Priklopil escape police shortly before his alleged suicide.

The pair met in Priklopil’s car at a shopping centre in Vienna as thousands of police officers combed the streets looking for him.

Holzapfel is believed to be the last person to have seen him alive.

The book also claims that Holzapfel removed items including computer and storage disks from Priklopil's house on the day of the escape while police officers stood around outside.

Priklopil also took items from his safe that had vanished by the time he had completed his meeting with Holzapfel.