{"id":1866,"date":"2019-12-02T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechpoints.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2019-12-02T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T17:52:10","slug":"ec-final-audit-finds-babis-has-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechpoints.com\/ec-final-audit-finds-babis-has-conflict-of-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"EC final audit finds Babis has conflict of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The European Commission has rejected Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019s claim\nthat the EC audit into his alleged conflict of interest, which arrived in\nthe Czech Republic on Friday, is not final. A European Commission spokesman\nmade it clear on Monday that the document is final and the Czech Republic\nhas two months to respond to the EC\u2019s recommendations. The audit, which\nhas been sent to the Ministry for Regional Development, remains\nconfidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, according to the weekly Respect, which cites two independent\nsources, the EC\u2019s final audit states that the Czech prime minister has a\nconflict of interest both under Czech and EU law and the Czech Republic may\nsubsequently have to return some 450 million crowns in EU subsidies paid to\nhis Agrofert business conglomerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 insists that he has fully adhered to the\ncountry\u2019s conflict of interest law, by placing the multi-billion crown\nconglomerate he owns into trust funds. He said on Monday that the EC did\nnot have the right to interpret Czech legislation and if the audit claimed\nhe had a conflict of interest the Czech Republic would fight it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has rejected Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161\u2019s claim that the EC audit into his alleged conflict of interest, which arrived in the Czech Republic on Friday, is not final. 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