The position of ambassador prevents Solvita Āboltiņa from commenting on domestic political developments, including the possible call by the 12th Saeima to falsify the results of the Saeima elections in her favor.
The LETA agency asked Āboltiņa, the Latvian ambassador in the Netherlands, in writing, whether she knows any reasons why the head of the information technology company “SOAAR” Renārs Kadžulis might be interested in slandering “Jauno vietības” and whether she allows that someone behind the scenes has tried to negotiate the election results so that the then politician would be elected to the Saeima. Aboltiņa thanked for the interest and emphasized that ambassadors should not comment on domestic political developments.
As written, Kadžulis, who is accused in the case of fraud in the procurement of the Central Election Commission, claimed to Latvian Television (LTV) that on the night of the 12th Saeima elections held in the fall of 2014, the former general secretary of “Vienotības” Artis Kampars invited him to talk and expressed his concern that Āboltiņa might lack of votes to enter the Saeima.
“We need you to do it so that she gets elected,” Kadzulis allegedly told Kampara ten years ago. “I’m saying, do you understand what you’re asking, you’re asking to falsify the election results. I will never go down that path in my life. And I refused. [Kampars] He said – then everything will be fine,” Kažulis claimed in the program.
He said that these statements can only be proved by the fact that Āboltiņa was not elected in the end, but he got into the 12th Saeima after Jānis Junkurs, who was elected from the “Vienotības” list, resigned from the Saeima. He announced that he had received a job offer from a company in Hong Kong. However, his public official’s declaration did not show his work in a Hong Kong company, which led to the conclusion that he left the Saeima to make room for Āboltiņa.
Kadžulis said that he reported the incident to the Constitutional Protection Bureau (SAB), but there was no response. “I reported it several times to SAB. Do you think something happened? It’s like against the wall there, just like KNAB. At one point, hands drop to report something, because no one does anything,” Kadžulis reproached.
Commenting on Kadžulis’s statement that he reported twice to the SAB employees verbally, LETA previously indicated to the SAB agency that all information about Kadžulis’ statements will be examined by the prosecutor’s office.
Already on Thursday, April 25, SAB told LETA agency that the office has not received an official submission from Kadžul regarding the possible falsification of the 2014 Saeima election results or attempts to do so. Such a submission has not been received from the company “SOAAR” represented by him either. SAB has not received any anonymous submissions on the specific topic.
SAB added that in accordance with the Law on State Security Institutions, the Prosecutor General and his specially authorized prosecutors supervise the operational activities, intelligence and counter-intelligence processes of state security institutions and the state secret protection system. During the supervision, they have the right to familiarize themselves with the documents, materials and information at the disposal of the state security authorities, the office stated on Friday.
The SAB also reminded that the President Edgars Rinkēvičs instructed the General Prosecutor’s Office to carry out an examination to evaluate the statements made by Kažulis. “All the information will be considered within its framework. The SAB cannot provide more extensive comments on the specific topic,” the office emphasized.
When asked about why no submission has been registered with the SAB in connection with the aforementioned, Kažulis previously emphasized the difference between a submission and a report to the LETA agency. On two different occasions, he met each time with a different SAB inspector, to whom he told about the incident, and the SAB inspectors or employees recorded this information in writing.
The entrepreneur stated that he also knows the names and surnames of these two SAB employees, but admits that he must not reveal them without SAB’s permission. Kadžulis is said to have applied to other institutions, not only SAB, which the businessman does not reveal at the moment.
Meanwhile, the ten-year time gap between the event he mentioned and the broadcast on the LTV program “What’s happening in Latvia?” Kažulis explains that appearing in the public media was another opportunity to report the incident, as the security authorities did not react to the initial news. The information is now released live on public media to allow the public and the media to react. On the other hand, Kampars Kadžulis’ statements in the program “What is happening in Latvia?” considered absurd and false.
