The Environmental Board hopes to find a way to listen in to hunters' radio communication before the fall hunting season. It remains unclear whether the agency has engaged in illegal surveillance for years.
A father and son are charged with fraud and embezzlement in a case made more serious by the fact that the father, Kaupo Martihhin, is a former high-ranking Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) officer, whose activities allegedly happened while he was still in office. The sums involved total around €300,000.
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
A businessman at the heart of a corruption scandal which in January brought down Jüri Ratas (Center) as prime minister is to be released from custody, where he has been held since shortly after Ratas resignation.
Hillar Teder, a property and retail magnate, was one of five suspects in an investigation into suspected influence peddling and bribery centered on the Porto Franco real estate development in central Tallinn.
Another suspect, former finance ministry adviser Kersti Kracht, was freed from custody last month, while the Center Party itself is also a suspect.
Teder s release follows a recent second-tier circuit court ruling, which the prosecutor s office has not challenged. He will be freed by Thursday latest.