Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) signed an agreement concerning a loan she made to her husband just days after visiting a company at the heart of the current controversy concerning the business interests of her spouse, Arvo Hallik.
ERR News reported in summer that the prime minister had loaned Hallik €350,000 for “investment purposes.” It transpires that the loan itself was issued early on in 2022.
Riigikogu Anti-Corruption Select Committee member Tõnis Mölder (Center) says the committee, investigating the case, has incomplete information in that it has not received bank statements indicating the loan has been fully repaid, and on what dates.
Mölder said that: “There is misleading public information which implies that Kaja Kallas has provided complete information regarding loan agreements, and their content.”
“The committee has at its disposal one loan agreement and its two addenda, concerning sums in the order of €350,000,” Mölder went on.
“As to statements that Kallas herself has made, to the effect that she has provided [Hallik’s] company with an additional €20,000 in loans this year, the committee does not have any contractual information, bank statements or documentation to that effect,” Mölder said.
Arvo Hallik’s company, Novaria Consult, was the recipient of the loans; via Novaria, Hallik had a 24.8 percent stake in Stark Logistics – a transport firm which had been transporting items to the Russian Federation after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and down to the present.
The items, components which go to make aerosol cans, are not the subject of sanctions on Russia, though assembled aerosols are – the parts would then be assembled as finished cans inside Russia.
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Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) signed an agreement concerning a loan she made to her husband just days after visiting a company at the heart of the current controversy concerning the business interests of her spouse, Arvo Hallik.
ERR News reported in summer that the prime minister had loaned Hallik €350,000 for “investment purposes.” It transpires that the loan itself was issued early on in 2022.
Riigikogu Anti-Corruption Select Committee member Tõnis Mölder (Center) says the committee, investigating the case, has incomplete information in that it has not received bank statements indicating the loan has been fully repaid, and on what dates.
Mölder said that: “There is misleading public information which implies that Kaja Kallas has provided complete information regarding loan agreements, and their content.”
“The committee has at its disposal one loan agreement and its two addenda, concerning sums in the order of €350,000,” Mölder went on.
“As to statements that Kallas herself has made, to the effect that she has provided [Hallik’s] company with an additional €20,000 in loans this year, the committee does not have any contractual information, bank statements or documentation to that effect,” Mölder said.
Arvo Hallik’s company, Novaria Consult, was the recipient of the loans; via Novaria, Hallik had a 24.8 percent stake in Stark Logistics – a transport firm which had been transporting items to the Russian Federation after the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and down to the present.
The items, components which go to make aerosol cans, are not the subject of sanctions on Russia, though assembled aerosols are – the parts would then be assembled as finished cans inside Russia.
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