Apartment affair costs minister his job

  • 1998-11-05
  • Daniel Silva
RIGA - In what could be the last event in which either man is involved while in his current government post, Prime Minister Guntars Krasts has demanded the resignation of Defense Minister Talavs Jundzis in the continuing fallout over the "apartment affair."The demand was made on Oct. 27, just one day after President Guntis Ulmanis asked for the resignation of National Armed Forces Commander Juris Eihmanis.An internal investigation completed last week by the Defense Department concluded 43,000 lats ($75,400) from the National Guard budget had been used by Eihmanis to renovate a seven-room ap...
 
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