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Freso: State Has Completely Lost Control Over Deal With Interblue Group
Tuesday 12 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 12 (TASR) - SDKU-DS MP Pavol Freso at a press conference on Tuesday said that he is convinced Slovakia has completely lost control over the emissions-quota deal with U.S.-based firm the Interblue Group, which bought unused quotas in 2008 in a transaction that later burst into a scandal due to the agreed price.
Freso was responding to information in the media that the Interblue Group ceased to exist in late 2009.
Therefore, added Freso, SDKU calls on Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) and Environment Minister Jozefa Medved (a Smer-SD nominee) to take up a stance towards this information the very same day. Freso also demanded that both officials should state what steps will be taken vis-a-vis this matter in the days to come.
"It really is an intolerable situation. I can hardly imagine how this Government could go on when it allows public property to be stolen like this," said Freso, adding that the €15 million - which, based on the contract with the Interblue Group, Slovakia should receive as an additional payment - has "gone somewhere".
Plus Jeden Den daily reported in its Tuesday edition that the Interblue Group, which signed a deal that is said to have cost the state at least €75 million, no longer exists. Despite this, the Environment Ministry claims that talks are in progress.
According to the daily's article, a look at the Washington State Business Register has revealed that the company ceased to exist on December 29. The weblink actually states that the company is inactive, meaning that it isn't allowed to carry out any law-related activities.
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