Prague under the leadership of the Pirates and Praha Sobě will pay over 300,000 in fines this year
02/09/2022 09:09:00
Influencing public contracts has become common practice in Prague. Or at least it seems that way. After the case of insane proportions broke out around the billion-dollar orders of the Transport Company, more and more strange things are coming to light.
Prague under the leadership of Pirátů and Čižinského will pay over 300,000 crowns to Praha Sobá this year in fines, which it repeatedly receives from the Office for the Protection of Economic Competition (ÚOHS). But isn’t this fine just a symbolic amount considering how big orders are affected behind the scenes?
When I now read the recent decision of the ÚOHS to award a fine to the Municipality for the illegally divided contract for the improvement of the Holešovice market, I am interested in one thing. How is it possible that Praha 7 hired a company whose manager is a certain Ing. Milan Dropka? This is because he carries out technical supervision without mandatory authorization, which the amendment to the Building Act does not allow from 1 January 2018 – under the sanction of the builder up to 200,000 crowns!
After all, Prague itself had to know that the project involved an unqualified person who could cause damage to the city. It is all the more interesting that Ing. Dropka can be found everywhere where Praha Sobě is responsible for the political management of the municipality. Alternately in construction projects as a consultant, designer, TDS, participant in individual commissions. Obviously, this is their favorite.
The company where Dropka is the managing director, atelier7 s.r.o., always receives contracts from the city where a public tender does not need to be announced. For example, consultancy contracts for the revitalization of the premises of the aforementioned Holešovice Market. These bargains were worth a decent 483,600 crowns and 945,000 crowns.
It was the reconstruction of hall 24 in the Holešovice market, which this company helped to prepare, that was fined by the Office for the Protection of Economic Competition for illegal division of contracts. The company atelier7 s.r.o. still won, for example, a contract for the coordination of the development of the Prague market area worth 1,949,000 crowns.
Somehow it doesn’t work for me. It gives me the impression that Čižinského’s court watchman of constructions, Mr. Ing. Milan Dropka, is involved in some long-term manipulation of public contracts, when he collects such money without public selection and without authorization. Or is he mistaken? So far, everything points to the fact that someone here is passing city contracts to their favorites, and I would therefore like to hear a proper explanation from Praha Sobě.
I will demand answers!