Current Affairs Prime ministers' former chief aide offers 'code' defence in Unipetrol corruption scandal
Steadfastly maintaining his innocence, former top prime ministerial aide Zdenek Dolezel, sacked after being caught on hidden camera soliciting a bribe, now says in his defence that he was "speaking in code", aware that his conversations might be wiretapped. But Dolezel has offered no explanation for his on-camera remarks that alleged kickbacks to his one-time boss -- former Prime Minister Stanislav Gross -- were the "right direction" for securing a half-billion dollar privatisation deal.
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