Bratislava, September 21, 2021 – KDH asks the government to swiftly publish land purchase contracts under bratislava's D4/R7 motorway bypass, which is due to open in a few days.

"It is absurd that we wait longer for information than the bypass itself and that even after seven years we do not know from whom the state bought the land for more than 350 million euros. Citizens have the right to do so and the government should keep its pre-election promises," stressed KDH Vice-President Igor Janckulík. KDH recalls last year's decision of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic that land purchase under the highway should not be concealed by the state." The Supreme Court ruled on this a year ago on July 15. Igor Matovič fought with the OĽaNO GROUP as a member of the opposition for the publication of contracts. Today, he has been the leader of the most powerful governing party and minister of finance for a year and a half, and it is time to ensure that information regarding land purchases under the Bratislava motorway bypass is made available. People are waiting for this," said Janckulík, who supported procedural proposals for the publication of contracts under D4/R7 as a Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic. Janckulík also calls on Transport Minister Andrej Doležal (We are a family) to take immediate action, who agreed to publish the contracts back in August last year, but it has not yet happened. According to the Vice-President of the Christian Democrats, the purchase of land under D4/R7 was the largest real estate business in Slovakia, which for unknown reasons has so far managed to be concealed despite the court decision. "How is it that before the new owner was entered, the names were publicly known and suddenly we cannot declassify them for several years? It is in the public interest to know the names and surnames of sellers who have received hundreds of millions of euros on state lands," janckulík appeals.Already in 2006, the state began to buy land under the Bratislava bypass, but a number of plots changed owners only just before the end of the tender in 2014. "Highways are built mainly through arable land, which normally costs a few tens of cents. But once a highway is drawn on the property, it becomes a building plot, increasing its value. In this case, the lucky people earned on the cheap purchase and expensive sale of the land to the state. Would it happen?" asks Janckulík, noting that every other day of secrecy compounds the shadow of suspicion of purposeful land purchase.