A judge has ruled inadmissible the major evidence in the trial of a former Tallinn deputy mayor, investigative weekly Eesti Ekspress reports. The evidence consisted of a wire-tapped phone call, allegedly containing a conversation about a separate case.
Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas said he would resign on Wednesday amid corruption allegations against his political party.
Estonia s Public Prosecutor alleged that members of the Centre Party, including Secretary-General Mihhail Korb, had engaged in influence-peddling related to a real estate development in Porto Franco.
Estonian businessman Hillar Teder had agreed to donate up to one million euros to the Centre Party in exchange for the right to build a car park in favour of the real estate development, the public prosecutor s office alleges. The evidence collected from the middle of January last year to the present refers to various crimes, on the basis of which public proceedings were initiated against people suspected of a crime today, Chief Public Prosecutor Taavi Pern said in a post on Facebook, laying out other money-laundering allegations as well.