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“The suspects are formally accused of submitting false information and concealing substantial data,” the EPPO added in a press launch, whereas not specifying the names of anybody concerned.
Czech authorities seized actual property of the corporate to compensate for the harm to the nationwide funds, nationwide anti-corruption police stated in an announcement.
In a placing growth, Czech media reported Friday afternoon that the case is said to Penam, a baking enterprise from the Agrofert conglomerate, which was managed by billionaire agriculture tycoon and former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.
The Penam firm acquired €3.9 million in subsidies in 2018 for the progressive line for toast manufacturing, which an Agrofert spokesman advised the Czech News Agency on Friday it had acquired “in accordance with regulation and subsidy guidelines.”
However, in 2022, the Czech trade ministry introduced it might withdraw the subsidy from Penam, after it acquired the outcomes of a European Commission audit.
The Commission stated that the “progressive” new toast manufacturing line didn’t qualify for funds for innovation, for the reason that identical line was already in use at one other Agrofert bakery.
