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Only so could he receive such sums that the U.S. Kroll auditors state in their audit of Cunek's finances. Cunek, who is also local development minister, senator and Christian Democrat (KDU-CSL) chairman, was suspected of bribe taking in 2002 when he was mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, but the police definitively halted his prosecution last November. Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (for the Greens), however, said he would not sit in the government with Cunek unless his finances are cleared up and ordered an audit with the Kroll auditors. The results of the audit that Schwarzenberg paid by himself and released this week are favourable for Cunek. Yet, the auditors point to certain discrepancies in his finances that probably are due among others to the financial rewards for lobbying in heh form of untaxed per diem. According to the audit, Cunek allegedly lobbied with the Defence Ministry in favour of Zbrojovka Vsetin in the 1990s and that he earned money due to the untaxed per diem. The Kroll agency gained this information from former Zbrojovka Vsetin director Karel Dancak. Cunek, however, refused to say how much he gained this way. According to the auditors, the journeys could explain the difference between the Cunek's incomes and the sums he deposited in banks. "He would have to take thousands of such journeys (to Prague). Not tens. Otherwise, he would not earn the hundreds of thousands of which Mr Dancak talks," Kalousek told LN. LN writes that Dancak has dismissed Kalousek's claim as a nonsense and that he will consider further steps after he reads the whole interview. Kalousek said previously that the Kroll agency lies when it indicates that Cunek lobbied at the Defence Ministry in favour of Zbrojovka Vsetin in the 1990s. Cunek then worked as a security technician for Zbrojovka. Kalousek, who was then deputy defence minister, said, however, that always only directors general or hired specialists lobbied for projects. ($1=14.587 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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