Zenklova, spokeswoman for the Prague City State Attorney's Office, told that Urbanova was accused of the criminal offence of false testimony and of providing an untruthful expert opinion. She faces two to ten years in prison, if found guilty. Aktualne.cz server reports today that Urbanova complained against the accusation today. "Evidence in the case of Mr Cunek has refuted her version about how bribery occurred.
Since she has insisted on her version, it is obvious that she intentionally told untruths," Zenklova said. She reminded that it was Urbanova's testimony that triggered Cunek's prosecution. Cunek was accused last year of having taken a half a million bribe in 2002 when he was mayor of Vsetin, north Moravia, but his prosecution Czechs' opposition to U.S. radar base growing - poll ...
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Czech press survey ... was eventually halted in the second half of last November. He resigned from the government in early November when the alleged bribery case was reopened. He returned to the government in April, a few months after his case was definitively halted. When he returned to the government, Cunek agreed to the condition of Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg (for the Greens) that an auditor will check his finances. ($1=15.775 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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