In Estonia, the parliament has backed allowing to criminally persecute legislator Mihhail Korb of the Centre Party, which is part of the Estonian government and the ruling political force in Tallinn. Prosecutors seek to determine his role in the Porto Franco case of alleged influence peddling, ERR reports.
On Tuesday, April 19, the Riigikogu adopted the motion to strip Korb of immunity passed with 82 votes out of 101.
Addressing his fellow legislators Korb asked the parliament to support the motion. The former Secretary General of the Centre Party said that it was necessary to allow him to defend himself in court sooner.
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The Estonian Office of the Prosecutor General has stated it suspect the politician of having committed a crime in the second degree. According to the suspicions, businessman Hillar Teder and Korb, serving at the time as the party’s secretary general, allegedly agreed in 2020 that the former would donate a million euros to the Centre Party over a period of one year in exchange for the city granting Teder’s Porto Franco real estate development the right to build access roads at a favourable price, ERR reports.
Estonian Centre Party MP has his parliamentary immunity taken in Porto Franco case
