The Office of the Prosecutor General on Monday sent to court the materials of a criminal investigation opened last summer that concerns the making of a forbidden donation to the Center Party, the junior partner in the two-party coalition governing Estonia.
The charges filed are to do with the making of a forbidden donation in the amount of €50,000 and entry into an agreement on peddling alleged influence.
Martin Kunnap and Catalina Porro are accused of entering into an agreement on influence peddling. According to the charges, Kunnap gave Porro €20,000 and the Center Party €50,000 in return for a promise concerning the use of alleged influence by Porro to achieve a favorable decision concerning building rights for real estate developments of companies connected with Kunnap. Even though, according to the charge sheet, the claims of Porro concerning her influence were unsubstantiated and, consequently, the desired result was not achieved as a result of influence peddling, acc