Former member of the European Parliament Zoran Thaler, who resigned due to corruption after the publication of a text in the British Sunday Times, will sue the corporation News International of media mogul Rupert Murdoch for illegally recording a conversation with him.
The newspaper Sunday Times recently discovered corruption among members of the European Parliament by secretly recording conversations, and one of the victims is Zoran Taler, who in a conversation with alleged "Russian tycoons" (journalists of the Sunday Times) was offered a hundred thousand euros to submit amendments to the financial laws, which correspond to them, which Thaler accepted.
"Journalists used illegal methods to achieve a media effect," said Thaler, who along with two other deputies was forced to resign from the European Parliament.
According to News International, Murdoch's corporation will set up a fund to pay compensation that will not exceed one hundred thousand pounds, but Thaler believes that most plaintiffs will seek compensation in court.
The former deputy believes that the positive outcome of his lawsuit will not change the public opinion in Slovenia, which condemned his act, but, as he said, the positive outcome will be "a small patch on the wound" for him.
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