Postimees Digest, Saturday, May 25
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Kraft orders analysis of VEB fund audit.
Head of Nordea's Estonian branch Vahur Kraft has ordered an analysis from an international auditor to look into the central bank's VEB fund audit and whether its conclusions are in accordance with actual documents. The former central bank president, whose signature is on an allegedly falsified document from 1995 notifying the Russian Foreign Economy Bank (VEB) of nonexistent claims, refused to elaborate on the audit before the results are made public. Even though the central bank audit was unable to prove it, head of the bank's internal control department Henn Oit claimed that the letter sent in April was part of a larger scheme in which VEB claims, held by the central bank and the government, were transferred to a company called TLS International and paid out in cash and bonds.
British support program to include interpreters who worked with Estonians.
Minister of Defense Urmas Reinsalu said that Estonia has come to an agreement with the UK as concerns its participation in the latter's program to support Afghan interpreters and that locals who worked with Estonian troops will be eligible for the British program. Exact measures and the nature and extent of Estonia's participation remain to be decided.