Although information on possible tax evasion has been available to the police for at least a year, this year the case has moved significantly. First, the police began to investigate the case on the basis of a criminal complaint last December. Now, according to the findings, Neovlivní.cz has assessed the suspicion as serious. “Police have commenced ...
Thirty years after the Velvet Revolution, Czechs and Slovaks are once again using mass street protests to shake up the political landscape. Although today’s protesters say they are inspired by the 1989 uprising that brought down communism in what was then still Czechoslovakia, theirs is a different fight: They see themselves as trying to ...
Police raided offices at the Czech Agriculture Ministry early on Thursday in connection with suspected subsidy fraud. The raid was conducted by the country’s special unit for fighting organized crime. Its spokesman Jaroslav Ibehej confirmed the raid was in connection with a criminal investigation but refused to provide further details. No one has so ...
Czech billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis said Saturday he would not resign if indicted for his alleged role in a two-million-euro EU subsidy fraud. Police this week recommended that Babis be indicted over the case which could see him and several others, including family members, spending five to ten years in prison. “I would not resign because I have ...
Police investigators have proposed pressing charges of EU subsidy fraud and damaging the interests of the European Union against Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and several family members including his wife, Czech Radio reported citing police sources. The police investigation into the so-called Stork’s Nest affair, in which the prime minister is suspected of ...
Czech opposition parties are piling pressure on ANO’s Andrej Babiš after his son claimed to have been forcibly sent abroad so he would not be able to testify in a corruption case against the prime minister. The leaders of six parties – who together have 92 votes in the 200-seat lower chamber – have called ...
Prague, Sept 19 (CTK) – The Transparency International (TI) organisation sent today its second motion concerning Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s possible conflict of interest, this time to the European Commission (EC), today, TI has announced in its press release. According to TI, billionaire businessman Babis (ANO chairman) is suspected of still controlling the ...
Prague, Sept 10 (CTK) – Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s wife Monika Babisova has given up her post in the board of the firm Imoba which owns the Capi hnizdo conference centre and farm, due to which he is facing charges of an EU subsidy fraud, the daily E15 writes today. The Farma Capi hnizdo ...
Prague, July 27 (CTK) – Czech opposition criticises Industry Minister Marta Novakova for saying, when asked about her presence in the cabinet led by a prosecuted man, that the practice over which PM Andrej Babis faces prosecution was widespread among businesspeople, and Novakova later apologised for her words. In an interview with the DVTV ...
