BRATISLAVA, November 7, (WEBNOVINY) – Chairman of the strongest opposition party the SMER-SD Robert Fico claims that they received a recording at the party’s headquarters on Saturday which “proves what SDKU-DS leader Mikulas Dzurinda is capable of and what he organized” when he served on the post of prime minister for the first time, probably between 1998 and 1999.
Fico says that someone brought an envelope with the recording to the SMER-SD office on Saturday afternoon. “I only received information from SMER’s headquarters that some envelope with a floppy disk was delivered there for me. We stopped by, played it at night and were surprised by what was recorded there,” stated the former prime minister adding that during the day, he had a program in Nitra county in connection with the upcoming regional elections. In spite of claiming that he listened to what was on the disk at night, SMER-SD announced already at 6 p.m. on Saturday that it would “present evidence to the public, which would reveal the corrupt face of Mikulas Dzurinda“. Fico does not know what to do about the recording now, but he will not run to the Police in connection with the disk, he said. According him, law enforcement bodies have to act ex offo if they believe that a criminal deed was committed.
Fico claims that the recording proves that Dzurinda was covering a big business in which a bribe was requested. According to him, the three voices in the conversation which he played to the press belonged to Dzurinda, the then mayor of Bratislava Peter Kresanek and businessman Vladimir Miskovsky. In Fico’s words, Miskovsky at that time had hands on various business projects, organized by the SDKU. “The story is very simple. Mr. Miskovsky is organizing a big deal regarding the supply of boilers for the incinerator in Bratislava via the firm Siemens. He needs to clear it with the Bratislava mayor, Mr. Kresanek. Deputy Vavrik steps in, who, according to Mr. Miskovsky is asking for money as a bribe for this business, and the whole issue is covered by Mr. Dzurinda, who confirms that he would take care of everything, that everything would be all right,” Fico told the press. His party has offered this explanation of the recording and is asking those who participated in the telephone conversations to explain their words. Fico thinks that the disk was delivered to SMER-SD on Saturday in reaction to Dzurinda’s negative statements about the SMER-SD party at the party’s national congress on Saturday.
“Mr. Dzurinda will not be telling us that we are a bunch of corrupted communists, as SMER has never had such a scandal,” Fico added. Before the 2010 parliamentary elections, a recording with a voice similar to that of Robert Fico appeared about SMER’s funding, in which that voice praised himself for acquiring money for the SMER-SD with his own head. The former prime minister refuted the authenticity of the recording.
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