The management of Prague will audit the city’s contribution organizations due to the Dosimeter case
Prague will have in-depth audits carried out in approximately 250 of its contributory organizations. It will focus on whether the organizations awarded public contracts to any of the more than thirty companies that, according to the city management, have ties to persons accused in the case of alleged corruption in the Dozimetr transport company since 2010. The councilors imposed it on the directors of the organizations at the proposal of the mayor Zdenek Hřiba (Pirates).
At an extraordinary meeting called for the position at the end of June, the city councilors instructed the councilors to ensure audits in connection with IT contracts assigned by the municipality and other organizations of the city to companies associated with entrepreneurs Pavlo Dovhomilja and Maroš Jančovič, who are accused in the Dozimeter case.
However, the audits of contributory organizations approved on Monday do not only concern information technology, but all areas and all organizations, city spokesman Vít Hofman informed in a press release.
In the event that any of the organizations cooperated with the company or companies on the list, the auditors will check in detail the entire process of the competition and awarding of the contract. “The audited companies have a number of contracts with ministries, government and independent Prague city districts, and I would therefore recommend that everyone carry out similar in-depth audits. The contracts can be completely legitimate and come from open competitions, but we want to check everything to be sure,” said Hřib. He added that the Pirates are implementing anti-corruption measures throughout the election period.
Police officers from the National Central Office against Organized Crime in June charged more than a dozen people for managing the transport company, including the mayor’s náměstí Petr Hlubuček (formerly STAN), businessman Michal Redl, former board member of the Prague transport company Matej Augustín and other members of the company’s management who as the city’s largest company, it operates public transport.
The police allege that an organized group of the accused systematically occupied a key position in the company so that the installed friendly managers could influence various tenders in order to receive bribes.
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