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Caplovic: Documents with Proof of Wrongdoing Have Been Destroyed
Saturday 02 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 2 (TASR) - The missing documents regarding the sale of the Slovakia's emission quotas to the company Interblue Group have been either taken away by the people involved in the shady transaction or destroyed during the personal changes in the Environment Ministry, Deputy Premier Dusan Caplovic (a Smer-SD nominee) has told TASR in an interview.
Caplovic, who temporarily took over the ministry in the wake of the scandal, said that among the documents that have got lost are also proofs of wrongdoings. "The people involved have realised all too well in advance that a number of serious mistakes was made," said Caplovic.
The Deputy Premier has found out that the relevant documents in question are missing when working out the first report to be submitted to the Parliament. The documentation Caplovic asked for and received lacked critical pieces of the puzzle. "I've been told that there's only a small number of documents on the matter, with the most crucial ones nowhere to be found," said Caplovic. Much to his surprise, however, an entire folder of new documents resurfaced after his successor Jozef Medved took over the ministry. "Still, they didn't contain all of the data," he said.
Caplovic went on to say that it's not only documents regarding the sale of emission quotas in 2009 that are lacking, but also those covering the sale under the tenure of minister Laszlo Miklos (Miklos was a member of Mikulas Dzurinda's government before 2006).
Slovakia sold 15 million tonnes of emission quotas to the Interblue Group for €75 million, at a rate of €5.05 per tonne. According to the Opposition, media and the present ministry management, this sum was disadvantageous. An extra euro per tonne should have been paid by the company for green projects. Interblue manager Jana Luetken said on December 2 that the projects aren't well defined, and that the company won't pay the remaining €15 million.
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