Libertas and Irish minister discuss the Libertas attempt to bribe Swedish party with 1 million euro

John McGuirk said of Libertas' reported attempt to bribe a a party in Sweden to support Libertas was "Normal and not unusual " on Ireland's Newstalk106 Lunchtime show.
He agreed that Libertas representitives met with June List and that money was"of course" discussed. He further admitted that the figure of one million was likely to have been discussed by Jasper Katz of Libertas with the June List.

Irish minister for European Affiars Dick Roche replied " I am falling around the room laughing" (at that explaination)He continued: "Libertas is a scam.....................hovering up money." On McGuirk's statements he said "We are not going to get the truth from them (Libertas) today". he said that the attempt by Libertas "to buy over a political party with 3 MEPs was unprecedented in the European Union".

The issue of Libertas' use of MPs names against their permission in order to recieve EU funding was also discussed. Roche said that the whole affair needed to be investigated for fraud as it was one of several bizarre aand unprecendented incidents which showed the true nature of Libertas. The minister implied that the public will never get the truth from Libertas on these affairs. he made particular reference to Libertas' use of signitures without permission or consent in an attempt to get 200,000 euro from the EU.

McGuirk said "those guys signed the application for funding. "


This is a lie. The documents posted on the Libertas website are not applications for funding they appear to be membership application forms for Libertas. The circumstances which these signitures were obtained are also very murky and need to be investigated.