He had not entered the property in his annual declaration of MPs' interests, as required by law.

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According to the declaration, most of their money comes from property deals in Santa Cruz province, where Mr Kirchner was governor before he became president.

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Although the Czech coalition government has persuaded itself that the joint declaration will forestall financial and property claims by Sudeten Germans -- whose welcoming of Hitler's "liberators" was directly responsible for this ethnic minority's subsequent relocation to Bavaria -- it seems unlikely to have that effect.

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