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SDKU-DS to File Criminal Complaint Against Premier Fico
Wednesday 27 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava January 27 (TASR) - Following Wednesday's statements made by Prime Minister Robert Fico, opposition party SDKU-DS is planning to file a criminal complaint over the defamatory suggestions that the party had practiced "dirty money laundering", TASR learnt from the SDKU press department later on Wednesday.
Fico said at a news conference earlier on Wednesday that it's quite likely that the strongest opposition party SDKU-DS is controlled by some fictive, no-asset "post-box" companies based in London, managed by directors sitting in tax havens and having accounts with banks in Switzerland or elsewhere abroad.
The Premier claimed that the owner of SDKU's logo is an English firm headquartered in the same location as Allied Wings, to which the party sent more than half a million euros in 2004. The financial transfer was allegedly made to pay off a loan previously taken to finance the party. Fico said he sees links between the company and SDKU in one person - SDKU treasurer Igor Kucej, who is CEO of the company's 100-percent Slovak daughter.
Fico suggested that the money may have stemmed from commissions paid for privatising strategic properties when SDKU was in power between 1998 and 2006.
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