The billionaire Andrej Babis, accuses the european Parliament to put pressure on the Czech legal system.
The Prime minister billionaire Czech Andrej Babis has accused on Saturday the european Parliament “interference” in the internal affairs of the country after a resolution passed the day before calling to introduce mechanisms to prevent conflicts of interest relating to the funds of the EU.
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Babis has made a fortune by creating the group Agrofert (food industry, chemistry, media). After taking over the reins of power, he was transferred to the trust fund in 2017, but the data registers of the beneficial owners show that it continues to reap the benefits of the group.
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While he denies having committed any wrongdoing, Babis is suspected of having taken advantage of the eu funds for SMES by removing Agrofert its resort and agricultural “stork Nest” near Prague in 2007, four years before his entrance into politics.
“A proof of the political and media pressure”
Saturday, Andrej Babis said that the members of the european parliament “had inspired the measures taken in the framework of criminal proceedings specifically on the territory of the Czech republic without the knowledge or specific evidence”. “This may be perceived as a proof of the political and media pressure on the judicial system of the Czech and interference in the internal affairs”, he said in a press release issued by the agency CTK.
The european Parliament has also condemned Friday’s “slanderous and hateful” by the Babis against meps in a mission in his country to investigate allegations of conflict of interest concerning him. The chair of this parliamentary committee, the German Monika Hohlmeier (EPP, right), at the head of a delegation of six persons who travelled in the Czech Republic in February, had already made a statement Thursday during the discussion of the”enormous pressures” suffered during this mission.
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at the time, Babis has qualified Ms. Hohlmeier of “disturbed” and has treated two members of Czech mission, “informants and traitors”. The billionaire runs a minority government with its populist centrist ANO and the social democrats, and which relies on the tacit support of the communists.
