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Police Investigating Corruption in Prosecutor-General Election
Tuesday 07 December 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, December 7 (TASR) - The police are carrying out an investigation into whether corruption was involved in the vote on the new prosecutor-general in Parliament last week, Police Corps Presidium spokesperson Andrea Dobiasova told TASR on Tuesday.
SME daily on Tuesday reported that at least one coalition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) MP was offered money in exchange for his vote. The lawmaker allegedly rejected the offer, however, according to three SaS MPs speaking on condition of anonymity. The daily noted that none of the coalition party chiefs has denied that bribery or blackmail could be behind the fact that at least six coalition MPs failed to vote for the Government's candidate Jozef Centes.
Parliament is set to make a fourth attempt to elect the new prosecutor-general on Tuesday, but as the Coalition has declared its intention to obstruct the vote and then turn the election into an open one, neither of the two candidates - Centes and incumbent Prosecutor-General Dobroslav Trnka - is likely to be elected.
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