Andrej Babis remains listed as a secret collaborator in the 'agent' category in the registration protocols of the erstwhile communist secret service the StB, the Nation's Memory Institute (UPN) said in reaction to a settlement concluded between the Slovak Interior Ministry and Babis on Tuesday.
The institute claims that it wasn't a party to the lawsuit in question and, therefore, no obligations stem for it from the agreement between the Interior Ministry and the Czech ex-premier.
"The agreement on settlement isn't above the law, based on which the institute is obliged to publish the registration protocols of the StB," UPN spokesman Michal Miklovic has told TASR.
According to Miklovic, the institute provided the ministry, at its own request, with documents and analyses that prove the legitimacy of Babis's record as a secret collaborator of the StB. Therefore, the Interior Ministry wasn't in material hardship in this case, claims UPN, which offered additional consultations to the ministry. "However, the ministry hasn't used this offer," noted Miklovic.
The Interior Ministry announced on Monday (October 21) that it had reached a settlement with Babis in the above-mentioned dispute, acknowledging that the former Czech prime minister had been wrongfully registered as an agent of the StB under the code-name 'Bures' and that he had not knowingly cooperated with the secret service.
Source: TASR
