He reiterated his determination to stay in the government only if the auditors exonerate Cunek. "I know that the Krolls have some further serious information, details.
The court proceedigns were also strange. That is why I have ordered another audit to check the police and state attorneys' procedure," Schwarzenberg (for the Greens) told LN. Schwarzenberg initiated the audit after he said he would not sit with Cunek in the cabinet unless his financial situation was clarified. Cunek, who is also local development minister, was accused of bribery in spring 2007, Audit of Czech deputy PM Cunek's finances may not be over ...
Czech deputy PM Cunek files complaint against judge ... but his prosecution was later halted. However, some of his financial deals have remained unclear. The audit, worked out by the Kroll U.S. agency, confirms neither the allegations that Cunek mediated a disadvantageous deal as mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, nor that he gained his finances in a dubious way, Greens chairman Martin Bursik said on Sudnay. Schwarzenberg said on Monday, however, that the investigation has not yet been over because Cunek did not provide the complete police file to the auditors. About 700 out of the total of 4700 pages of the file are missing. The police in early 2007 accused Cunek of bribery over the suspicion of the reception of half a million crown bribe from H&B Real company in 2002 when he was mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia. Schwarzenberg said he has mixed feelings about the current audit results because the check has not cleared up the payment of per diem in cash and some questions related to the Vsetin flats. He said the auditors should find a reply to these questions in the documents that they will only get. Cunek's case was halted after Supreme State Attorney Renata Vesecka removed the case from state attorney Radim Obst and delegated it to state attorney Arif Slaichov. Last November, however, she ordered the case proceedings to continue and Cunek resigned on November 7. Two week later, however, Salichov halted Cunek's prosecution for a second time. Cunek's alleged bribery investigation definitively ended. He has never been brought to court. In April he returned to the government. (USD1=14.705 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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