Lajcak fined over property declaration

Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak (a Smer-SD nominee) has been fined the sum of three months of his salary by the parliamentary conflict of interests committee for his failure to include his equity stake in a house in the village of Jarabina in his property declaration. Proceedings against Lajcak were already launched last year, but the vote was adjourned after committee member Peter Kresak (Most-Hid) pointed to the fact that the proceedings should be halted if a public official resigns from his post before the committee's vote. He was alluding to the fact that Lajcak offered his resignation at that time. As President Andrej Kiska didn't receive it at that time, Kresak suggested that the committee should delay its vote.