PM Topolánek: Schwarzenberg and Čunek are both to stay

Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek confirmed on Monday that neither Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg nor Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek were going to leave his government over the issue of Mr Čunek’s personal finances. An audit of Minister Čunek’s finances, commissioned by Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg and carried out by the US investigation agency Kroll, did not substantiate charges of alleged corruption, PM Topolánek said. Jiří Čunek was accused of taking bribes in 2007. His case was later shelved for lack of evidence by the prosecution but doubts over the case remained and made Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg commission a private probe into his finances.