The transport company is looking for a new director, it has issued a tender
On Wednesday, the Prague Transport Company (DPP) announced a selection process for all director positions, which also applies to the entire board of directors, including CEO Petr Witowski. He did so on the instructions of the management of Prague, which owns the company one hundred percent.
Transport company Prague. Illustrative photo.
| Photo: DENÍK/ Martin Divíšek
City spokesman Vít Hofman told ČTK. Due to suspicion of corruption in the DPP, the police charged several people in June, including the then deputy mayor Petr Hlubuček (formerly STAN), who was also a member of the supervisory board of the DPP, and now a former member of the board Matej Augustín.
There are more directors of individual departments in DPP than members of the board of directors, but each of the members is also a director at the same time. In addition to being a member of the board, Augustín was in charge of financing the company. According to the deputy mayor for transport Adam Scheinherr (Prague Sobě), he announced the audition for his position in the company about two weeks ago. “By announcing the selection process for other members of the DPP management, we are giving a clear signal that the company is starting again, better as a clean slate,” said the deputy today. He added that the choice of the new management of the company will be up to the new political representation that will emerge from the upcoming elections.
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The DPP announced the tenders based on the June resolution of the capital city council, which functions as the company’s general meeting. However, Scheinherr stated that the reason for the current announcement is the upcoming elections, because “coalition partners, specifically Petr Hlubuček and Jiří Pospíšil (TOP 09) are no longer pushing to fill positions”. He added that the company has introduced or is introducing anti-corruption measures, such as an anonymous telephone line or strict rules for awarding public contracts.
In June, police officers from the National Headquarters against Organized Crime charged more than ten people for managing the DPP, including Hlubuček and Augustín, as well as businessman Michal Redl, who, according to investigators, had ties to the STAN movement. The police allege that an organized group of the accused systematically occupied a key position in the DPP so that the installed friendly managers could influence various tenders in order to obtain bribes.
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The newspaper N wrote on Wednesday that the DPP dismissed three workers who are being prosecuted in the so-called Dosimeter case, as the case of possible suspicion of corruption in the company is called. These are the head of the legal department, Dalibor Kučera, the head of the technical administration of the buildings, Martin Vejsada, and the head of information technology, Luďek Šteffel, company spokesperson Daniel Šabík confirmed to the newspaper.
DPP is the city’s largest company, employing over 11,000 people. Last year, the capital was about 15.2 billion crowns, this year more than 16.76 billion crowns are allocated in the budget.