Topolanek has rejected any possible fault. At the beginning of this year BIS informed Topolanek about an information leak and Topolanek allegedly entrusted BIS director Jiri Lang with a task for the counter-intelligence service to investigate the leak. However, under the law, it is exclusively the government and not its members or even the prime minister who can entrust the service with tasks. According to Aktualne.cz, the government has not charged BIS with such investigation.
The ministers told the server that they only learned about the information leak from journalists. "The prime minister told us that the BIS director informed him about Czech Green candidate says his chances for minister minimal ...
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Czech Prime Minister not to support Tlusty in party elections ... the case and he charged him with the task to resolve the matter," head of the Chamber of Deputies commission monitoring BIS Jeronym Tejc (senior opposition Social Democrats, CSSD) said. "We have therefore asked BIS for official information about what tasks the government has assigned to it. If it was the prime minister who assigned the task, it could be a violation of the law," Tejc added. According to the server, Topolanek now speaks about a recommendation he gave to Lang, and not a task imposed. "You know well that only the government can assign BIS with tasks and don't try to make a fool of me. The information-recommendation chain is not only legal, but it is true, and give it a rest," Aktualne.cz quotes Topolanek as saying in his SMS message. BIS recently admitted that its former officer stole classified data three years ago. It said, however, that the information was three-years-old at the time of the leak. Later, the former officer tried to sell it but the deal finally fell through. According to BIS, the information was threatened but it was not abused nor did it end up with the people who could abuse it. However, some experts have questioned the explanation. The leaked data concerned the economic area, for instance, privatisation and state tenders.
(Ceske Noviny)
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