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The former office manager of “Vienotības” Normunds Orleāns has said that the party has threatened businessmen in order to receive services for free. “Nothing personal” reports that it is about the company “SOAAR”, which is said to be required to provide electronic vote counting at “Vienotības” congresses.
The TV3 program “Nothing personal” reported that the technical support of “SOAAR” cost the party more than 20,000 euros, but the political force did not pay for it. Renārs Kadžulis, a member of the company’s board, claims that services have been requested from him since 2011, until 2020 he refused and asked to pay. Soon after, he allegedly started having problems with law enforcement authorities, which have now resulted in four criminal proceedings.
The communication is said to have taken place with the representative of “Vienotības” Sanita Stelpi-Segliņa, but the main organizer was the general secretary of the party at the time, Artis Kampars. Kadžulis is said to have written e-mails to Kampar, to which there were no replies from Kampar, as all communication took place afterwards by phone or in person. Only Stelpe-Segliņa communicated electronically, but these e-mails were about technical details.
Claiming that he no longer remembers many details, Kampars admitted that the vote counting system was handed over to the party for testing and testing in the initial period. “After that, most likely, there should also be payments. I don’t remember so many payments by heart, as to who paid what,” Kampars added. On the other hand, Kadžulis now claims that he understood the situation as follows – “since we ensure the state elections, we are also obliged to ensure the elections for them, because the state has already paid for it”.
In 2011, a contract was prepared for a symbolic amount – 50 lats. However, it has not been signed and payment has not been received. In subsequent years, the contracts are no longer mentioned.
“SOARR” has ensured 47 election procedures in 13 “Vienotības” events – eight general meetings and five congresses of the Riga branch – during eight years. The businessman calculates that it cost him around 22,000 euros. The service has not been reported by the party and is not recorded as a donation or service. In the declarations of the party from 2014, the item – the costs of organizing the congress – appears.
