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MP busted after taking fat envelope.
(From The Slovak Spectator)
Byline: Martina Pisarova Spectator staff
Banska Bystrica regional official was to share Sk1 million bribe with a parliamentary deputy FOR THE FIRST time in Slovak history, a legislator was arrested after police caught the MP taking a Sk500,000 ([euro]24,100) bribe in his office. Gabriel Karlin, member of the opposition party Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (1/4S-HZDS), was arrested on November 25 in his party's office in Banska Bystrica. Along with the MP, the head of office of the Banska Bystrica greater territorial unit (VUC), Milan Mraz was apprehended, police confirmed. One day later, the parliamentary immunity committee, composed of ten members, including three HZDS MPs, voted unanimously to keep Karlin in custody. To enable further investigation, the MP will face a vote in parliament to strip him of his parliamentary immunity, surrendering him to criminal prosecution on November 27. The police operation that caught the 56-year-old MP, a member of the parliamentary agriculture committee, involved an undercover police agent, the Interior Ministry confirmed. Interior Minister Vladimir Palko said that Karlin and Mraz may be sentenced for up to eight years in prison if found guilty. Palko said at a press conference on November 26 that Karlin and Mraz each took Sk500,000 ([euro]24,100) bribes and that Mraz has already been charged with accepting bribes. Karlin will be charged after being stripped of immunity. According to Palko, the bribe came from a businessman who won a contract from the local VUC authorities to build a school gym in a town in the Banska Bystrica region. The businessman reported to the police that the men asked for the bribes. Police vice-president Jaroslav SpiSiak added that an agreed provision for both men was five percent of the value of the contract. In the event that the regional authorities agreed to increase the contract sum, each of the officials would receive 10 percent of the increased amount, SpiSiak said. According to Palko, a policeman entered Karlin's office just after the two men ...
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