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Czech opposition head's ex-wife says she paid tax from gift ... taken seriously by certain people," said Paroubek, CSSD chairman. Paroubek pointed to the report that Kubice submitted to the lower house security committee shortly before the election, in which he accused the then ruling CSSD of allowing organised crime's infiltration in the civil service. The CSSD narrowly lost the election to its arch rival, the Civic Democrats (ODS), who have been in power since. The Kubice report "grossly defamed the then strongest government party and its officials," the CSSD said in a press release today, adding that Kubice had acted at variance with law. "The consequences of the defamation campaign continue to harm the CSSD" and the Kubice reports' "destructive effects have had impact on certain people's private lives," therefore the CSSD is left with no other choice but to seek justice at an independent court, the release says. The information from the Kubice report leaked from the Chamber of Deputies to the media a couple of days before the election, though the security committee meeting was closed, as the report was a classified document. Kubice told the deputies at the time that Paroubek, then prime minister, the CSSD-led Interior Ministry and the police president were trying to influence the investigation of selected serious cases his police squad (UOOZ) was investigating. The CSSD insists that the leak of the Kubice report harmed it in the election. The UOOZ and the election-winning ODS dismissed the allegation. Ivan Langer (ODS), then member of the lower house security committee who is now interior minister, was late last year fined 9,000 crowns by the National Security Office (NBU) for having enabled the leak of a part of the report. Another of the committee members, Pavel Severa (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL), faces a similar fine. ($1=17.785 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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