All information related to the claims from “SOAAR” manager Renārs Kadžuļis will be checked by the prosecution office, as LETA was told by the Constitution Protection Bureau (SAB), commenting on Kadžuļis’ previous claims about turning to SAB twice with this information in the past.
On Thursday SAB told LETA that the bureau never received an official application from Kadžuļis regarding the possible attempts to falsify results of Saeima elections of 2014. No such application was received from “SOAAR” either.
SAB also said the bureau never received any anonymous applications regarding this topic.
Exactly the same response was given by the bureau to LETA today, commenting on Kadžuļis’ claims about verbally reporting information to SAB twice in the past.
At the same time, SAB also said that in accordance with the Law on State Security Institutions, the prosecutor general and authorised prosecutors perform monitoring of state security institutions’ operations, intelligence and counter-intelligence processes, as well as official secret protection system.
It is through monitoring efforts it is possible to study documents of state security institutions and other information, the bureau noted on Friday.
SAB also reminds that President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs has ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to check the information publicly reported by Kadžuļis. “All of the available information will be reviewed. SAB is unable to provide more comments regarding this topic,” the bureau stated.
When asked why SAB doesn’t have a single application registered about this scandal, Kadžulis told LETA there is a difference between a notification and an application. He said he met with two SAB inspectors and told them what happened. Those SAB inspectors, he said, did not write down what he told them.
The businessman said he knows the names of both of those SAB inspectors. However, he said he suspects he cannot reveal their names without permission from SAB.
Kadžulis said he also turned to other institutions. He did not say which.
Kadžulis explains the 10-year gap between the event and his interview to LTV programme “Kas notiek Latvijā?” with how the interview to a public media was one more opportunity to report on what happened, especially after security services failed to respond to his initial report. Information was reported live on public media to give society and the media an opportunity to react.
Former secretary general of Unity Artis Kampars told the programme “Kas notiek Latvijā?” [What’s happening in Latvia?] that he considers Kadžulis’ claims about Unity’s alleged attempts to influence vote-counting results in the Saeima elections of 2024 absurd and untrue.
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