Cunek, chairman of the junior ruling Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL), added that the per diem allowances were not included in the income, but paid in cash. This was the reason of a high difference between Cunek's official income and his savings, which the police revealed during the investigation of a corruption suspicion, Cunek said referring to the Kroll report. Cunek, who has Czech ForMin yet to decide whether to resign over Cunek case ...
Czechs against EU treaty further ratification -ForMin in Standard ... been on holiday in Croatia since the weekend, however, refused to say how much money he had saved this way.
The audit of Cunek's family finances was initiated by Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (for Greens, SZ) who said he would not sit with Cunek in the cabinet unless his financial situation was clarified. Cunek was in spring 2007 accused of accepting a 0.5 million crown bribe, in his capacity as mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, but his prosecution was later halted. Cunek, who is also local development minister and senator, resigned from the government last November when his case of alleged bribery was reopened. It was, however, definitively halted a fortnight later and Cunek returned to the cabinet in April on condition an agency selected by Schwarzenberg would assess his finances. SZ chairman Martin Bursik on Sunday released the main points from the audit's summary. He said the document revealed no evidence due to which Cunek should leave the government. Bursik also said Schwarzenberg would stay in the cabinet. Schwarzenberg is to release the whole audit result on the Internet by Tuesday. Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (Civic Democrats, ODS) only said he agreed with Bursik's statement and that he had nothing else to add. Schwarzenberg, who si in Paris now, refused to comment on the audit for the time being. MfD writes that the total income of the Cunek family was 1.6 million crowns by 1998. However, the police investigation uncovered that Cunek had deposited 3.5 million crowns in his accounts in three different banks in November 1998. Last year Cunek said his cousin had lent him 1.5 million crowns, his parents had provided one million and he and his wife had saved the other one million crowns. The daily Pravo calculated that the Cuneks thus could have spent 600,000 on their family life until 1989, which is 3000 crowns a month, which would be completely insufficient to support a family. The Cuneks have a large family and their fourth daughter was born in 1997, Pravo recalls. (USD1=14.850 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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