DOKUMENT: Audit Jiřího Čunka - Methology

Mr. Cunek has fully cooperated with our inquiry and met with Kroll investigators on four separate occasions. He was helpful in assisting Kroll with access to his family members, business associates, and former employers. They include Mr. Cunek’s wife Pavla Cunkova, his cousins Jan Machu and Petr Kozacek, and former Zbrojovka Vsetin chief executive Karel Dancak.

Mr. Cunek also provided Kroll with a copy of his police file which comprises almost 4,000 pages. We have reviewed the file, which contains witness testimonies gathered by the police, Mr. Cunek’s family’s financial and real estate records, Vsetin town records, telephone logs and other important documents.

However, we note that some of the information listed in the table of contents of the police file is missing from the dossier. For example, one such document was the final valuation of Vsetinske Byty, the joint real estate company set up between the city of Vsetin and entrepreneur Petr Hurta, which forms the core of the bribery allegations. The valuation, which starts on page 403 and ends on page 552, possibly contains the most complete assessment of the value of Vsetinske Byty. It was prepared by an independent assessor NOVA s.r.o. retained by the police. Other, likely less significant, sections are also missing, comprising pp 353-700 and 1775 – 2116. Mr. Cunek has told Kroll that he has not gone though all of the file and did not know what was missing.

Kroll visited Vsetin and interviewed sources familiar with Mr. Cunek and individuals involved in the Vsetinske Byty transaction. We spoke with Viktor Syptak, owner of JASY Vsetin a.s., which built Mr. Cunek’s family home; Stepan Gargos, chief executive of COOP Therm, the real estate management firm which attempted to join Vsetin in Vsetinske Byty but lost to H&B Real; Alexander Beran, chief executive of NOVA s.r.o., an independent appraiser hired by the police to assess the value of Vsetinske Byty; and Vsetin Deputy Mayor Jaromir Kudlik. Kroll also visited the offices of H&B Real in Vsetin and met Petr Hurta, who repeatedly declined to be interviewed. Kroll also interviewed Martina Hurtova.

We have also reviewed the layout of the executive floor of Vsetin city hall, where the alleged bribe supposedly took place.

Kroll also reviewed thousands of pages of Czech media reports, and additional corporate, real estate, and other public records.

All sources were told by Kroll that information provided by them will not be made public and will be used solely for the purpose of this confidential report.