The audit, worked out by the Kroll U.S.
agency, confirms neither the allegations that Cunek, chairman of the government Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), mediated a disadvantageous deal as mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, nor that he gained his finances in a dubious way , said Deputy PM Bursik, who read a shorter version of the audit. The information that Cunek, in his capacity as Vsetin mayor, accepted a 0.5 million crown bribe, which his former secretary Marcela Urbanova reported, was not confirmed either, Bursik added. Cunek was accused of bribery in spring 2007, but his prosecution was later halted. However, some of his financial deals have remained unclear. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (for Greens), who initiated the audit and paid for it, said Czech Greens to hold extraordinary congress on September 5-7 ...
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Czech Greens head calls on his deputy to run in elections ... he would not sit with Cunek in the cabinet unless his financial situation was clarified. Bursik today said Schwarzenberg would stay in the cabinet. He pointed out that the audit revealed no reason for Schwarzenberg to leave the government. The coalition leaders agreed on the audit of Cunek's finances in the spring. Bursik has so far studied a five-page summary of the Kroll audit. Schwarzenberg has the entire 29-page analysis translated and he will release in on the Internet on Tuesday, Bursik said. Cunek, who si also local development minister and senator, had already resigned from the government last November when his case of suspected bribery had been reopened. It was, however, definitively halted a fortnight later and Cunek returned to the cabinet in April on condition an agency selected by Schwarzenberg would assess his finances. Cunek said previously he had no reason to fear the audit results and he cannot see any reason for his resignation from the cabinet either. (USD1=14.850 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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