Estonia’s head of government announces resignation

Estonia’s Prime Minister Jüri Ratas has announced his resignation after corruption allegations against his party.
Ratas informs that he wants to take political responsibility and to give the opportunity to clarify the allegations.
Judicial authorities in the Baltic EU country had earlier launched investigations into a state aid loan to a real estate project against Ratas’ left-leaning Centre Party.
“In politics, very difficult decisions have to be made to resolve difficult situations,” Ratas said in a statement to the press. The decision to resign was made after consultations with his party, he said. Ratas stresses that the suspicions of the public prosecutor’s office do not mean that someone is already definitively guilty. But the suspicion inevitably casts a very serious shadow over all involved.

Doubtful 40-million loan for real estate project
The background to the investigation is a loan of almost 40 million euros granted by the state financing agency Kredex in the summer of 2020 for the development of a large-scale real estate project in Tallinn. The decision was allegedly preceded by unauthorized collusion. Among the suspects are Center Party Secretary General Mihhail Korb, and the party itself is suspected of being a legal entity. Four people were also provisionally arrested on Tuesday.

Ratas claimed not to have been informed about the details of the controversial loan. “I can say with full certainty that as prime minister I did not make a single malicious or knowingly wrong decision,” he said.

Ratas governs in Estonia with his left-leaning Centre Party in a tripartite alliance with the right-wing populist Estonian People’s Conservative Party and the conservative Isamaa party. He has served as head of government since 2016.

Source: https://www.srf.ch/news/international/estnische-regierung-estlands-regierungschef-kuendigt-ruecktritt-an

Covid-19 Vaccine: Doctor dies two weeks after taking Pfizer vaccine

In a shocking incident, a Miami doctor Gregory Michael died after taking coronavirus vaccine shot….

Please read the full article here:

https://english.lokmat.com/international/covid-19-vaccine-doctor-dies-two-weeks-after-taking-pfizer-vaccine/

Extensive report in German: http://www.wochenblick.at/mann-56-starb-an-corona-impfung-jetzt-will-seine-witwe-wachruetteln/

“Estonia” sinking: Swedish commission wants to examine hull

Baltic Sea ferry sank in September 1994 – 852 people died

The Swedish Accident Commission wants to examine the hull of the Baltic Sea ferry “Estonia”, which sank 26 years ago, in more detail. Together with its partner authorities in Estonia and Finland, the commission wants to find out how a hole was made in the hull, which footage released by documentary filmmakers two months ago revealed.

That does not necessarily mean there will be new dives to the “Estonia” wreck, the commission’s deputy director general, Jonas Bäckstrand, told Swedish radio. Relevant decisions have not yet been made, he said, but nothing is ruled out.

So-called metallurgical analyses are needed, as well as analyses of the hull structure, Bäckstrand said. It is a matter of analyzing, with the help of drawings and other information about the construction of the ship, which forces are necessary and which scenarios are likely to cause such a hole.

The “Estonia” had sunk off the southern coast of Finland on the night of September 28, 1994, with 989 people on board on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm. 852 people died, and the sinking is considered the worst shipping disaster in Europe since World War II. According to the official investigation report from 1997, the torn bow visor was the cause of the sinking. Nevertheless, speculation about the cause of the accident continues to this day. Survivors and surviving relatives have long demanded that the investigation be resumed.

The discovery by documentary filmmakers at the end of September caused quite a stir. With the help of a diving robot, they discovered a four-meter hole in the wreck. The raw material of the film team could examine the investigators in the meantime, as the Swedish average commission wrote on Friday on its web page. The bow visor located in Sweden has also been inspected. To be able to assess the origin of the hole, among other things, the construction of the ship’s hull would have to be analyzed.

Source: https://www.oe24.at/newsfeed/estonia-untergang-schwedische-kommission-will-rumpf-untersuchen/455568929

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