16.07.2008 - Czechs should improve corruption investigation - Kroll detective
The firm checked the finances of Cunek, who is also local development minister, senator and Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) chairman.
Cunek was suspected of bribery, but the police definitively halted his prosecution last November.
Foreign Minister Karel 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.
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Helsby told CTK by phone from London that he also talked to Schwarzenberg about the proposal to work out recommendations for an improvement of the work of the police and state attorneys investigating corruption.
Such material would, however, be paid by the Czech state unlike the audit that Schwazrenberg has paid himself.
Helsby, who has worked with the Kroll auditors since 1981, said the firm was actually hired because people in the Czech Republic do not sufficiently trust the process of investigation.
People did not trust the Cunek case's investigation result and spoke about political influence, Helsby said.
He, however, pointed out that his people did not talk to Czech police and state attorneys during the check of the Cunek finances, and therefore all conclusions about the police work are only very much preliminary.
Helsby said it would be good for the Czech Republic to have a system that would allow an independent and trustworthy investigation of political corruption.
He said this is complex and that many states the world over have been looking for a solution.
(Ceske Noviny)
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