Cases 2021 from the iROZHLAS.cz workshop: letter on conflict of interest, half a million for the Communist leader and Zeman’s health | iROZHLAS
We offer a selection of this year’s cases with the iROZHLAS.cz brand. We investigated the corruption affair at the High Court in Prague, the conflict of interests of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš or, for example, the prosecution of sexual predators from the film In the Network.
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A fundamental interview with Judge Sovák
We spoke with the main actor in the corruption case at the Prague High Court – ex-judge Zdeněk Sovák. He met our editor near his rental apartment under Vyšehrad and talked about the details of his case. The issue of the interview was over, police officers came to him with an “invitation” to be questioned. Sovák no longer reached him because he ended up in psychiatry.
However, medical reports did not stop his prosecution. “In the case of the accused former judge of the High Court in Prague, the investigation continues,” the supervising public prosecutor Zdeněk Štěpánek confirmed for iROZHLAS.cz.
We have also dealt with the case in other texts. For example, we brought a report from the gallery of the also prosecuted Armenian businessman and painter Gagik Tonyan, who, according to the police, gave Sovák a picture for bending the verdict.
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Prosecuted Judge Sovák spoke. ‘I was just doing stupid bullshit,’ he says of the wiretaps he got behind bars
Open interview with ex-judge Zdeněk Sovák. He talked about individual cases, the relationship with the informal assistant Milan Bíba or the direction of his own defense.
Greetings to Miloš Zeman
We collected fragments of political corridors and compiled the most accurate description of the events surrounding Miloš Zeman’s health. The castle apparatus locked the president in an impenetrable bubble, he himself decided who he would release to Miloš Zeman, and everything could result in the activation of constitutional article 66.
But this did not happen in the end, the president was released from the Central Military Hospital at the end of November. From behind the glass wall, Zeman then appointed Prime Minister Petr Fiala and, after talks with candidates for the ministry, his entire government.
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50 days that shook the president’s health: liver problems pretended to be anorexia after smoking
Poor lifestyle. Cutting telephone lines. Medical record locking. iROZHLAS.cz, with the help of a number of well-informed sources, reconstructed the meetings that took place day after day at the president’s bedside.
Communist leader and suspect half a million
Half a million crowns. Vojtěch Filip was to receive so much money from businessman Tomáš Horáček. And we were the first to draw attention to this in September this year and at the same time bring an interview with the ex-head of the Czech communists. The case is still being solved by the financial administration and the municipality in České Budějovice.
A series of texts was created for the case. For example, a description of the recordings on which Filip’s former assistant Lukáš Gibiec says that “he didn’t count”.
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‘First support from Tomas.’ The head of the KSČM, Filip, has to explain the suspect to half a million
According to several testimonies, he found himself in his deputy’s office. At the same time, the police tried to prove that the half-million amount was a bribe.
Conflict of interests of former Prime Minister Babiš
We obtained in a series of texts the declassification of the European Commission’s correspondence with the Czech authorities on the audit procedure for the conflict of interests of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (YES). The communication confirmed the public proclamations of the ministers concerned and showed that the control of conflicts of interest in the Czechia has still not improved. OF A warning letter even came to Brussels, which threatens to suspend all subsidies.
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A warning letter came from Brussels: Check conflicts of interest and trust funds, otherwise we will suspend subsidies
Brussels could suspend the repayment of projects of Czech companies, which have already been financed from Czech cash registers, from funds for a certain period of time.
Subsidies for Fatra
We mapped that the preventive stop for Eurodotions did not apply to the Agrofert holding without exception. The state took a risk and gave about half a million crowns to the plastics company Fatra. He wanted to test a conflict of interest in Brussels, but he refused to reimburse the subsidy. The Czechia initially threatened a lawsuit because of this, but apparently eventually withdrew from it.
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This is not a failure, authorities said. they are giving up on the lawsuit over Babiš’s conflict of interest
Since the lawsuit, the Czech political leaders have promised to find out whether Andrej Babiš (ANO) is or is not in a conflict of interest. Now the authorities do not agree on who should decide on its submission.
Police corps tumor
In the second half of April, the General Inspectorate of Security Forces charged two elite detectives, a police officer and four civilians. On that day, we found out that the whole event bore the code name Tumor and was related to the case of businessman Tomáš Horáček.
At the beginning of September, it became clear that there were two other accusations in the case of leaks from police data. With the help of police documents, we then managed to reconstruct the basic outlines of the case. According to the obtained protocols and testimonies, the accusations created a system that protected related entrepreneurs.
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The story of the Tumor case: the leaks were to go through an elite detective, the police accused two other people
Tumor, an inspection operation against leaks from police databases, is growing: as the iROZHLAS.cz server found out, two other people have heard the accusations. The list of prosecuted numbers now includes a total of 9 people.
Deputies and record bonuses
We revealed that the largest piece of the record awards at the Ministry of Finance was cut by Deputies Stanislav Kouba and Karel Tyll. Each of them cost 715 thousand crowns. What did they deserve such bonuses for? “I worked all Saturdays and Sundays,” Tyll responded for iROZHLAS.cz
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Declassified: record bonuses were taken on the finance square for taxes and budget, helped by target rewards
The iROZHLAS.cz server provides information on who and for what received 715 thousand crowns at the Ministry of Finance last year as an extraordinary reward.
Sagittarius from Belgrade
We spent the whole of June 29 in the streets of Prague and watched the police search for Jiří D. He was shot dead by a labor office employee in Prague’s Bělehradská Street around 11 am. On that day, police patrols guarded the metro stations and the house where Jiří D. had a permanent residence. After more than four hours, the police caught him, in the very center of Prague. The iROZHLAS.cz server was present when the armed forces closed Vodičkova Street and pacified the man suspected of murder only a few meters away.
We unraveled the shooter’s story. For example, we managed to describe his plan, which was to culminate in a class reunion where there were more than 20 people.
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Other targets of Jiří D.? According to the police, the weapon hit the apartment, and after the murderous shooting it was preparing for a class reunion
The iROZHLAS.cz server found out that the shooter from Bělehradská Street wanted to take revenge on several other people. Her landlord or public prosecutor, who sat her on the dock in the past. But not just them.
In the network of sexual predators
For the second year in a row, we have been following the prosecution of sexual predators from the successful documentary In the Network. This year, a key verdict fell, which sent the so-called Ústí nad Labem to prison for two years. He is thus the only man who ended up behind bars due to his involuntary performance in the documentary. Just a reminder: he contacted the protagonists of the film, who pretends to be twelve, over the social network, and asked them to undress or send him intimate photos.
However, Ivan H., known as a man from a single predatory pair, almost received an unconditional sentence. According to the judge, who was questioned by the iROZHLAS.cz server, “it could not be sent to prison”. In the end, he was given two conditions. However, she was still being taken away from the courtroom by the police. Forensic scientists found that they continued to harass the children despite the investigation. So I ended up in jail.
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The first unconditional punishment for a predator from the movie In the Net. The ‘Ústí nad Labem’ is to go behind bars for two years
The forty-eight-year-old man was the only one to write with all three actresses and make appointments with them, but they did not occur. The verdict is invalid, both the prosecutor and the lawyer can still appeal.
Money for a field hospital
We were the first to point out that the state owes the Bulovka University Hospital less than 90 million crowns for a failed field hospital in Letňany. The old-new Minister of Finance Adam Vojtěch then confirmed to us during an interview that the hospital deserves money. At the end of July, the Ministry of Health did send them.
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Bulovka is still waiting for 90 million for a field hospital. He does not want to repay the finances, Vojtěch is looking for a solution
“It’s a huge amount for us and we haven’t done many things in the hospital because of that,” Jan Kvaček, head of the Bulovka University Hospital, told the iROZHLAS.cz server.
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