Andrej Babis is featured in a report by The New York Times on subsidy fraud in the European Union. The report shines a light on the EU’s secretive subsidy system, and exposes how it’s being abused to enrich oligarchs, populists and mafia figures: In the Czech Republic, the highest-profile subsidy recipient is Andrej Babis, ...
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has launched a massive counter-offensive to the preliminary EU audit concluding that he has a conflict of interest due to strong links to his former business empire. While he refuses to meet with the organizers of the street protests against him, he has taken every opportunity to present himself as the ...
Babis’s former businesses will not get agricultural subsidies until a European Union investigation of his possible conflicts of interest is completed, authorities said on Thursday. Babis is under pressure from swelling protests demanding he resign because of his business ties and an ongoing criminal case. The step to suspend agriculture-related development subsidies – ...
As Czech’s cast their ballots for European Parliament, the most massive protests in the nation since 1989 continue, with 50,000 people taking to Wenceslas Square to demand the dismissal of Justice Minister Marie Benešová. The crowd of protestors waved Czech and European Union flags and signs that read: “You can’t break justice” and”I am ashamed ...
The Czech prime minister’s possible conflict of interest regarding EU subsidies to the holding Agrofert is an absolute priority for the European Commission in view of EU budget protection, European Commissioner Gunther Oettinger said on Wednesday. The European Commission has conducted an extensive audit at Czech ministries regarding the subsidies for Agrofert amounting 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 ...
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 14 (CTK) – The state has signed three deals on granting subsidies worth 6.5 million crowns to firms that are part of Agrofert, a holding built by current PM Andrej Babis, and also to firms of Agriculture Minister Miroslav Toman’s father, which may be at odds with the EU rules, the Pirates have ...
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 ...
