2011

January 27 – The daily Právo and the Aktuálně.cz server informed that the Ministry of Finance had issued a criminal complaint due to a suspicious contract, which Promopro won without competition during the Czech EU Presidency. According to Company Law, the contract was “knocked down” by the government section then led by Alexander Vondra (ODS), later the Ministry of Defense. According to the daily, the amount for renting and operating audiovisual equipment should not exceed 85 million crowns, but the company eventually invoiced 766 million.

– In response to the report, Vondra stated that he had not signed the contract with Promopro and was not aware of it. According to him, the then head of the government office, Jan Novák, was responsible for financing the Czech presidency. But he claimed that the contracts were being prepared by Vondr’s office.

January 28 – The management of Promopro declared the information published in the media to be distorted, incomplete and tendentious.

– The government office published a contract with Promopro and later amendments.

February 1 – Government spokesman Jan Osuch said that the government office paid Promopro almost 551 million crowns.

February 3 – The ODS management reacted sharply to the statements of the Minister of Finance Miroslav Kalousek (TOP 09), who accused Vondra in the press of being responsible for the losses of hundreds of millions of crowns.

February 7 – The police have initiated proceedings on suspicion of committing a criminal offense of misconduct in the administration of another’s property.

February 17 – Minister Kalousek and the director of the financial analysis department of the ministry, Milan Cícer, announced that part of the money from payments for Promopro went to suspicious accounts in Austria. Due to this, almost 135 million crowns were blocked on the accounts.

February 24 – Petr Necas (ODS) accused Kalouska of prime minister investigating the case. Kalousek refused.

March 24 – At an extraordinary meeting of Parliament, Vondra declared joint responsibility for the economic outcome of the EU Presidency. He said he had an overview, but did not address the details.

– The government parties Věci veřejné (VV) and TOP 09 called on the ODS to resolve the situation around Vondra, which they said did not clearly hold responsibility for the Promopro case.

March 28 – The ODS executive council stood up for Vondra.

April 11 – Vondra has offered to resign as Minister of Defense.

June 16 – The Chamber of Deputies called on the CSSD and the KSCM to call off the Promopro Vondra due to the case. Nečas refused.

July 7 – The Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS) initiated administrative proceedings with the Government Office in connection with the contract.

2012:

April 13 – The anti-corruption police announced that they accused ten people in the Promopro case, including three former state employees. Later, the number of defendants rose to 12.

December 7 – Vondra has resigned as Minister of Defense.

2013:

May 3 – Police have proposed indicting 12 people in a case. According to detectives, the contract was overpriced by 388 million crowns.

October 30 – The Office imposed a fine of 1.2 million crowns on the government office.

December 20 – The High Public Prosecutor’s Office in Prague announced that it had filed charges against 12 people, including three former high-ranking civil servants accused of abuse of power and breach of duty in the administration of other people’s property.

2014

April 9 – The tax office imposed a fine of almost 551 million crowns on the government’s Promopro contract. The government office announced that it would appeal against the fine and that it would also apply for a waiver of the levy.

3rd of November – The Prague City Court has started hearing the Promopro case. The state joined as damaged, the damage amounted to a total of 938 million crowns.

2015

22nd April – The government has decided to pay most of the damage due to the case of 848 million crowns from the government budget reserve.

June 24th – The court found the former executive of the Promopro company, Jaroslav Veselý, and six representatives of subcontracting companies guilty. Veselim and the main subcontractors of the NWDC sent Vlastimil Max nine years in prison, other entrepreneurs were sentenced to three years ‘imprisonment and six years’ imprisonment. The court released the three former civil servants. The court awarded the state 327.5 million crowns as damages, another 450 million must be recovered by the Czech Republic in civil proceedings.

September 23 – The court informed that in the Promopro case it found other entrepreneurs guilty. He illegally sentenced Radek Müller six years and nine months in prison for money laundering.

22nd October – Hospodářské noviny reported that businessman Libor Veverka was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in a case. The squirrel was the last of the defendants to await the verdict.

– All illegally convicted entrepreneurs, the public prosecutor and the state that has the injured party in the proceedings appealed against the verdict.

2017

January 4 – The Court of Appeal ruled that the exemption of the three former officials was final. At the same time, the Board of Appeal stipulated that seven accused businessmen would go to prison – it tightened the sentence on Václav Čad, who was the only one who originally left the court with a condition.