The High Prosecutor’s Office indicted thirty people in the case of fraud in ČKD Prague
According to earlier information, the prosecuted persons face up to 13 years in prison. Depending on how the amount of damage is threatened.
ČKD Praha DIZ, which appeared, among other things, in the construction of the Blanka tunnel in Prague, previously belonged to the billionaire Petar Speychal, who is supposed to be the main figure in the case. Other prosecuted are the managers of the company at the time or representatives of the companies with which it did business.
In addition to cutting taxes and participating in an organized crime group, the police also accuse them of money laundering. They estimated the damage caused by the state to be at least 850 million crowns.
The company ČKD Praha DIZ came into greater attention in February 2015 in connection with the damaged cables in the Blanka tunnel, which the company supplied. This caused another delay in the opening of the then-under-construction building and marked the beginning of a dispute between the city representatives, the Metrostav company and the ČKD Praha DIZ company.
The whole dispute continued until May 2016, when ČKD Praha DIZ terminated the contract with Prague and stopped taking care of the Blanka tunnel. In August 2016, the Arbitration Court decided that Prague does not have to pay ČKD Praha DIZ approximately 1.7 billion crowns, which the company demanded for work on the tunnel. ČKD Praha DIZ subsequently filed a lawsuit.
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