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Trnka Soon to Decide Who Will Deal With SDKU Financing Case
Friday 29 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 29 (TASR) - Prosecutor-General Dobroslav Trnka said on Friday that he will decide on Tuesday of next week after collecting all relevant documents which section of his office should deal with the allegedly shady financing of opposition party SDKU-DS.
The affair emerged earlier this week when Prime Minister Robert Fico made accusations against the main opposition party.
According to Trnka, it's now obvious that the whole matter will be investigated. He added that he will request the documents that SDKU leaders have not forwarded to him yet.
Likewise, Trnka is planning to turn to the Government Office to obtain any documents related to this matter that Premier Fico may have at his disposal, including those which might have not been published yet.
"The international section [of Trnka's office - ed. note] will begin preparing letters of request to be sent to individual countries - say Great Britain or Switzerland - in order to discuss options for their legal assistance when it comes to screenings of bank operations," Trnka told reporters after meeting opposition KDH party chairman Jan Figel.
Trnka said that he would ask Fico about his information source only if necessary. At the same time, he sees no reason to criminalise the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS), even if this was Fico's source. This is a hypothetical question, however, he said.
Fico claims that it's quite likely that SDKU is controlled by fictitious, no-asset "post-box" companies based in London, managed by directors sitting in tax havens with banks accounts in Switzerland or elsewhere abroad. In a series of news conferences this week, he said that the money may have flowed from commission paid during the privatisation of strategic property when SDKU was in power between 1998-2006.
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