Cunek stressed he had never lobbied in the way that could be called illegal or immoral. After meeting Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (the Civic Democratic Party, ODS), Cunek said the case had finished for him. "For me, the investigation was closed as the state attorneys, the Justice Ministry and Kroll have closed the case, too," Cunek said. Cunek said Kroll had not written in its report that he would have lobbied on behalf of the armament manufacturer Zbrojovka Vsetin with Miroslav Kalousek, a deputy defence minister in the 1990s and now the Finance Minister. "There is nothing of this kind in it.
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Czech schools to get money for teachers' pay in July - minister ... is up to Kalousek whether to sue the daily Mlada fronta Dnes that has started the game. But this really did not happen. There was no inadmissible lobbying," Cunek said. Kalousek has asked the Kroll agency and Karel Dancak, former director of Zbrojovka, for apology over the statements in Cunek's financial audit. The audit writes that Cunek, then safety technician in Zbrojovka may have been lobbying at the Defence Ministry in favour of Zbrojovka to gain the government order for the Plamen (Flame) gun for the Czech-made L-159 aircraft. Cunek was accused of bribery in spring 2007, but his prosecution was later halted. However, some of his financial deals have remained unclear. The Kroll audit was ordered by Schwarzenberg (for Greens) who said he would not sit with Cunek in the government unless his financial situation is clarified. The audit was primarily to find out whether Cunek accepted a half-a-million-crown bribe when he was mayor of Vsetin. Kroll detectives did not find he was bribed. (USD1=14.483 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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