20.07.2008 - Czech ForMin considers Kroll agency investigation almost closed
He added in the Questions of Vaclav Moravec on Czech Television (CT) that this could only change if something serious were found in the 700 pages that the auditors did not get from the Cunek file.
Schwarzenberg said, however, the Kroll firm does not expect anything new to be uncovered.
Cunek, who is also local development minister, senator and Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) chairman, was suspected of bribe taking in 2002 when he was mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, but the Czech Chamber holds extraordinary session on judiciary next week ...
Autumn elections to shake ODS rule - Czech CSSD leader Paroubek ... police definitively halted his prosecution last November.
Schwarzenberg (for the Greens), however, said he would not sit in the government with Cunek unless his finances are cleared up and ordered an audit with the Kroll auditors.
The results of the audit that Schwarzenberg paid by himself and released this week are favourable for Cunek.
Lubomir Zaoralek (opposition Social Democrats, CSSD), deputy chairman of the Chamber of Deputies, said the audit was nonsensical and that the case should have ended up at court.
"This case must go to court and Ms (supreme state attorney Renata) Vesecka must be dismissed," Zaoralek said alluding to speculations about her interference in Cunek's investigation.
Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka (senior government Civic Democrats, ODS) said the Cunek alleged bribery case has been halted in harmony with valid laws.
He reminded that Vesecka became supreme state attorney under a CSSD government.
Schwarzenberg said the audit was only to provide him with material for his decision-making on whether he should remain in government with Cunek, not to assess Vesecka's procedure, which he said is a matter for the Justice Minister.
Schwarzenberg also said today he feels well after the heart operation he underwent in February and that he is not going to resign for health reasons in the months ahead.
(Ceske Noviny)
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