{"id":5572,"date":"2018-07-10T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:57:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:57:52","slug":"justice-minister-not-worried-by-criminal-prosecution-of-babis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguebusinessjournal.com\/justice-minister-not-worried-by-criminal-prosecution-of-babis\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Minister Not Worried By Criminal Prosecution Of Babis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prague, July 10 (CTK) &#8211; New Justice Minister Jan Knezinek, who replaced Tatana Mala (ANO) today, has nothing against being in the government with a criminally prosecuted prime minister, he told journalists today after President Milos Zeman appointed him to the post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prime Minister Andrej Babis (ANO), who has proposed Knezinek to the post, is facing a criminal prosecution over an EU subsidy fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;If I minded this I would certainly not be standing here,&#8221; Knezinek said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;In this case, I rely on law-enforcement bodies, on the independent state attorney&#8217;s office and on independent courts. Let us leave the decision up to them,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Knezinek listed his priorities. The short-term ones include the completion of the bills now debated in the Chamber of Deputies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;There are quite a lot of them,&#8221; Knezinek said, citing as the examples the new law on court experts and the law on interpreters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When it comes to long-term priorities, he said he planned to fulfil the government manifesto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The biggest task, the task for the whole election term for the Justice Ministry, is to work on new procedural rules or on the new code of civil procedures, the new rules of criminal procedures so that the things on which the work has lasted for very long were pushed forward,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Knezinek stressed that he had been named as a full-fledged government member.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mala was forced to resign over a plagiarism scandal with her two theses after two weeks in office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Babis will inaugurate Knezinek on Wednesday morning. 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