Estonian businessman and Isamaa party sponsor Parvel Pruunsild has filed a claim in Tartu County Court against head of Wikimedia Estonia Ivo Kruusamägi and (Reform Party) politicians Andrus Ansip and Jürgen Ligi. Pruunsild wants claims according to which he has benefited from Estonia's pension reform overturned.
Pruunsild told ERR that the lawsuit was motivated primarily by an article on the Estonian Wikipedia (Vikipeedia) website that he claims includes false information. "The Wikipedia article suggests that Bigbank (owned in part by Pruunsild – ed.) and I personally have benefited from the reform that made the second pension pillar voluntary. This is slander pure and simple," the businessman said.
The claims made in the Wikipedia entry are from an article by Sulev Vedler that was published in weekly Eesti Ekspress in 2019.
The weekly wrote that Andrus Ansip suspects Pruunsild wants to dismantle Estonia's mandatory funded pension scheme, the so-called second pillar, as it would allow Bigbank debtors to settle their accounts using pension assets the reform would allow them to withdraw ahead of time. Pruunsild is a major sponsor of the Isamaa party that pushed for the reform.
"My lawyer Paul Keres has included as co-defendants those who helped spread the false claim and slander – Andrus Ansip and Jürgen Ligi. The slander needs to be disclaimed." Pruunsild added that he only found out in November that a Wikipedia article had been written about him, which motivated to...
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