The Ostrava court, north Moravia, fined Cunek 20,000 crowns for a breach of duty of a public official set in the law on conflict of interests. He did not state in his statement on the activities, property, incomes, gifts and claims that he submitted in March 2007 in connection with his resignation as mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, that he has an unpaid mortgage credit with Komercni banka amounting to almost 1,4 million crowns. "I did not conceal anything.
An administrative mistake probably occurred there. What kind of mistake? I do not know yet," Cunek told Pravo. He nevertheless admitted he may have made a mistake himself. He said the amount of his mortgage was a "public information" for a long time and that Czech government to inform citizens on EU in new way ...
Czech soccer funs accused over riot ending in policemen's injury ... he has never concealed having a mortgage. He added he pays around 15,000-17,000 crowns monthly. Cunek said he is not decided yet whether he will appeal against the Ostrava court verdict with the Supreme Administrative Court. The tightened law on conflict of interest took effect in January 2007. It obliges politicians, high-ranking officials, judges and mayors to regularly disclose their incomes and to provide a list of their property with a special register. Cunek resigned as Vsetin mayor after he became deputy prime minister and local development minister in January 2007. Cunek was suspected from November 2006 of having accepted a half-a-million bribe from H&B Real real estate company in 2002, when he was mayor of Vsetin. He resigned as deputy prime minister and local development minister in early November 2007 when this corruption case was reopened. At the same time he was under pressure from his own party and the centre-right coalition government over media information that his family was taking social benefits in the early 1990s when it had 3.5 million crowns on accounts. In the second half of last November the Supreme State Attorney's Office upheld the definitive halting of Cunek's criminal prosecution. Cunek has also come to the centre of media attention by his attitude to the Romany minority and his controversial statements about it. ($1=17.889 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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