Czech Republic

Bradáčová se za své výroky o Martincovi omlouvat nemusí, rozhodl soud

District Court for Prague 2 dismissed a suit former chief of anti-corruption police Tomas Martinec againts the top state prosecutor Lenka Bradáčová. Martinec demanded 200,000 crowns from Bradáčová and an apology in the media for her statement on the radio, according to which he should have made her cause. According to the judge Otilia Hrehová is responsible for the statements chief prosecutor's office, not Brádáčová herself. The verdict is not final.
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Špioni a korupčníci. Ruská televize chystá útok na humanitární organizaci Člověk v tísni

We are facing a discrediting campaign, claim People in need. Russian television station connects them with espionage. The Czech humanitarian organization People in need serve to foreign secret services, claims Russian television station TV Centr. The TV station will broadcast a documentary movie accusing organization of espionage and corruption in the Ukrainian Donbass, which is controlled by Russian forces. The Czech organization refuses the charges as a discrediting campaign and as an effort of Russian forces to get them out of their region. Russian political scientist Ivan Preobraženskij said, according to his opinion, that the news report is created for order. Similar reports are usually ordered from high ranking official. Requested goal is to compromise some particular people or organizations. In the case of foreigners and opposition activists is the goal to get them out of the region, which is controlled by Russia, he means.
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Sobotka u dotační kauzy ROP byl, udělali si z toho dojnou krávu, prohlásil Babiš

Sobotka was in the ROP affair of subsidies. They made a cash cow from it, said Andrej Babiš, Czech Minister of Finance. The Czech Prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka bears the responsibility for behavior of his colleagues in the ROP (regional operating program) affair Northwest. He was a deputy chairman of ČSSD political party, said Andrej Babiš, Czech Minister of Finance and the leader of ANO party. Babiš said this in the response to Sobotka’s statement, that ROP affair is closed and it is past for ČSSD. In the fact, police also investigates Babiš’s farm Stork’s nest for misuse of subsidies. I don’t think that the statement of Bohuslav Sobotka is alright. He was there, when this ROP corruption was made. He was the deputy chairman, so he bears the responsibility, means Andrej Babiš. The vice-premier for Science and Research, Pavel Bělobrádek, the leader of KDU-ČSL party, was restrained. It is an inner thing of ČSSD, how they will struggle with it. And mainly, it depends on the police and the court and their investigations, he means. The police expressed in numbers, that the damage is 13.9 billion Czech crowns.
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Stíhaný Ježek měl blízko k motorkářům, kteří dostali exsenátora Nováka z vězení. Platil jim web

Criminally prosecuted Ježek had a close relation to motorcyclists, who got ex-senator Novák out of prison. He paid them a website. Criminally prosecuted businessman Daniel Ježek, who was caught by police during their swoop against frauds with European donations, had a close relation to motorcyclists from a citizen association Gryphons. They stood security for a city ex-major Alexandr Novák and they had to re-educate him. In the past, both ex-members of an ODS party cooperate together in few businesses. Except of their membership in the ODS party and connection with Gryphons, they are both friends with a lawyer Michael Kis. He pleads their cases now. And there is also a connection in a very strange transfer of two hotels in Chomutov. In connection with European donations, the police made on Tuesday a big swoop, which ended with accusation against 24 people of damaging interests of EU and other crime offences. The damage is about 13.9 billion Czech crowns. Between other prosecuted persons are for example regional ex-council member of Ústí nad Labem Jana Vaňhová, Jiří Červinka or mayor of Cheb Jan Navrátil.
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Policie obvinila íránského podnikatele Zadeha z ovlivňování svědků

Detectives from the special police headquarters accused Iranian businessman Sharam Abdullah Zadeh of influencing a witness. He is tried for an extensive tax evasion, but he is prosecuted at liberty, thanks to a record bail 150 million crowns. His lawyer said that according to the accusation he had participate in influencing a witness, which Zadeh itself regardes as untrustworthy.In the case of tax evasion Zadeh and his 14 companions face up to 13 years imprisonment. According to the accusation they should cause damage 2.5 billion in the process of fuel importation.
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Soud za daňové úniky oddálilo stíhání znalce v kauze OKD

The court for tax evasion was delayed because of a prosecution of the expert in OKD affair Because of arrest of businessman Martin Uher and his companion Pavlína Nováčková in 2006, the police started to uncover one of the biggest cases regarding tax evasion for sold propellant. Finally after ten years of investigating, public prosecutor managed to bring five persons to justice. Unfortunately the court denied taking an expert’s opinion, regarding accountancy of interested companies, into consideration. The main author Rudolf Doucha is prosecuting because of a distorted opinion on his basis the Czech Republic should lose 5.7 billion Czech crowns, when the state sold their own stake in OKD. Doucha is suspended, so he can’t confirm his expert’s opinion. By force of these circumstances, the president of the senate decided to make a new expert’s analysis, said a press agent of the Pilsen district court. But this should be a problem because it has been lost some important accountancy documents, according to press Právo. Three businessmen, one accountant and one layer face several charges of fraud and legalization revenues from criminal activity. According to the expert analysis, already mentioned Uher and Nováčková were the main actors of the fraud and through companies Solitor, Radeost and OilMaster imported since 2014 to 2016 to Czech Republic hundreds of tank trucks with petrol and did not pay the full excise tax. Accused businessmen did not manipulate with tax return and they officially declare their duty to pay the debts. They said that they wanted to pay, but their companies do not have money, so they can’t afford it. To make this impression, they show fake transactions. In the papers, it looks like they do not have money, but in fact, they have big profits. Prosecuted traders used the opportunity of the introduction of free trade within the European Union in May 2004, when customs controls disappeared from the borders.
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Podezřelé řidičské zkoušky v Kladně. Policie obvinila pět lidí z korupce

Policemen accused five people who were arrested on Monday in Kladno, of corruption and abuse of power. They are suspected of allowing people to obtain a driver's license, for example, without completing the required journeys or without passing the tests. Police spokeswoman informed that these defendants are three examiners from Kladno Municipality and two representatives of driving schools. They are investigated at liberty.

Krejčíř chce zpátky do Česka, v JAR nabízí přiznání ke všem činům

Radovan Krejčíř wants to come back to the Czech Republic, he offers a confession to all his crimes. The czech citizen Radovan Krejčíř, who was judged in the Rebublic of South Africa (RSA), requested for a transportation back to the Czech Republic. Previous attempts of the Czech Republic to get him back were denied because of his bribery of the main judge. Now he changed his mind and he wants to confess to all his crimes in exchange for parallel ten years sentences. In a brief to the NPA (National Prosecuting Authority), his new lawyer, Eric Bryer, stated, that Krejčíř wants to confess to all his crimes in exchange for parallel ten years sentences, but he wants to be trasported back to Czech Republic, which agreed according to his czech lawyers. In the brief is also mentioned, that Radovan Krejčíř had corruption deals with highly ranked policie and justice offcials and he will také the stand against them, but only in the safety from the Czech Republic. He faces to six cirminal accusation and was already convicted for a kidnapping and a murder to 35 years in prison.

Steuerhinterziehung: Europaweiter Schlag gegen Dieselbetrüger

Tax evasion: Authorities have revealed a million-strong fraud with diesel fuel. The gang had sold diesel without taxing it.
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Soudy posvětily vydání Putinova úředníka ruské justici, rozhodnout má Pelikán

The main Czech Court in Prague approved an extradition of Alexander Alexandrovich Nikolaev, former high-ranking state official, to the russian justice. The final decision is now on the Czech Ministr of Justice, Robert Pelikán. The former boss of the Federal state budget is in the Russia accused of a conspiracy and a fraud, which damaged state assets in a value of ten millions rubles. He was hiding in the Czech Republic until January this year, when he was arrested by czech officers based on the international arrest warrant. According to him, the accusations of fraud are faked. I never planned to steal Putin’s money, that is crazy, he said. Putin is slowly getting out of money, so he is finding new enemies of the state and I decided to leave to the Czech Republic, he added.
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