Parliament’s finance committee to look into president’s campaign funding

Parliament's finance committee will look into the funding of President Andrej Kiska's campaign for the post of head of state in 2013-14, TASR learnt from the committee's head Ladislav Kamenický on Wednesday. In so doing, the committee is responding to a controversy that has surrounded the funding of Kiska's successful bid for president. The committee has also extended a request to Finance Minister Peter Kažimír to draft a report on the discrepancies in Kiska's campaign expenditures and another request to Kiska himself to aid in producing the report. A company called Kiska Travel Agency (KTAG), co-owned by Andrej Kiska, claimed to have spent on its own operating costs an amount of money that it actually used to back Kiska's presidential campaign. As KTAG paid the tax that it owed plus a penalty following an inspection by the tax office, nobody was prosecuted.