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Hort: Fico Engaged in Misconduct, Misusing SIS and Other State Bodies (UPDATE)
Thursday 28 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 28 (TASR) - Attempts to criminalise political rivals and misuse state bodies in favour of party interests are characteristic of the Smer-SD party in the run-up to this year's general election, said SDKU-DS MP Milan Hort at a press conference on Thursday.
"Our conviction that Prime Minister Robert Fico is engaged in misconduct - that he is misusing security-related state authorities, including the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) - is still growing," said Hort, adding that SDKU is currently collecting and assessing all the relevant evidence, which will be presented as soon as it is verified.
According to Hort, it is obvious that information concerning SDKU's alleged money laundering that was presented by Fico on Wednesday can't have come from police sources. "It's clear that ... SIS is again being misused for what we used to call (during the Communist era) 'the fight against the internal enemy'. So, all the blatant conspiracies that we've witnessed recently from the premier lead us to believe that Mr. Fico is lying, misusing the powers of the public authorities and misusing state bodies for the political purposes of the Smer-SD party," he said.
According to Fico's spokesman Brano Ondrus, Hort's claims - that the premier might be engaged in misconduct - are an evidence to the fact that SDKU-DS leadership is "absolutely hopeless", unable to give a trustworthy explanation to the suspicions raised by the premier.
Hort refused to comment on any questions from journalists concerning SDKU's financial background. According to Fico, it's quite likely that SDKU is controlled by certain fictitious, non-asset "post-box" companies based in London, managed by directors sitting in tax havens with banks accounts in Switzerland or elsewhere abroad.
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