The son of Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 today testified to the police for more than six hours in the case of a 50 million subsidy for the construction of the Stork’s Nest farm.\u00a0Andrej Babi\u0161 Jr., who was also originally charged in the case and whose prosecution was later stopped, told reporters that his father had made him a so-called white horse and that he never wanted to be part of the subsidy fraud.\u00a0In the Stork’s Nest case, the Prime Minister and his former adviser Jana Nagyov\u00e1 (formerly Mayerov\u00e1) are now accused of damaging the financial interests of the European Union and of subsidy fraud, both of whom deny guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I feel good about it. I’m glad that I was finally able to testify today in the Stork’s Nest case, in which my father made me a white horse. I want to emphasize that I never wanted to be part of the grant fraud,” Babi\u0161 Jr. told reporters in front of the building. Prague police in Kongresova street. He did not want to answer further questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Defenders of Babi\u0161 and Nagy, Michael and Josef Barton\u010d\u00edk, also attended the interrogation of Babi\u0161 Jr. today.\u00a0Michael Barton\u010d\u00edk told reporters that he could not comment on the circumstances of the interrogation, however, he stated that he was not surprised by Babi\u0161 Jr.’s statement with regard to his previous media statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u010cap\u00ed hn\u00edzdo farm originally belonged to the Prime Minister’s holding Agrofert. In December 2007, it was transformed into a joint-stock company with bearer shares and later received a European grant in the SME program, to which it would not be entitled as part of Agrofert. The shares were owned by Babi\u0161’s children and partner. Babi\u0161 Jr. has previously stated that the farm was a project of his father from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The company returned to Agrofert after a few years. In 2017, Babi\u0161 holding invested in its trust funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police in the Stork’s Nest case in May proposed that the Prime Minister also charge Nagy, but the supervising public prosecutor Jaroslav \u0160aroch returned the case for further investigation at the end of August, mainly so that the investigators could supplement the interrogation of witnesses. \u0160aroch set a deadline for completing the evidence until 17 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Babi\u0161 Jr. has also long claimed that the Prime Minister had him taken to the Crimea in 2017 against his will, precisely in order to prevent him from testifying in the Stork’s Nest grant case. Babi\u0161 rejects his son’s claim and claims that his son suffers from schizophrenia. In connection with his trip to Crimea, Babi\u0161 Jr. testified to the police last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Stork’s Nest case, 11 people were originally charged, including Andrej Babi\u0161 Jr. and other members of Babi\u0161’s family. Sharoch gradually stopped prosecuting all the accused. However, in December 2019, former Chief Prosecutor Pavel Zeman resumed the prosecution of Prime Minister Babi\u0161 and Nagy after a review. At the same time, he confirmed that the persecution of Babi\u0161’s loved ones was definitely over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prosecution of Babi\u0161 Jr., whose case was excluded from the main branch because the police could not hear the man, was finally stopped last February. The prime minister’s son lived in Switzerland at the time. He has been in the Czech Republic since July this year and is speaking publicly against his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week, according to the iROZHLAS.cz<\/a> server , other of the previously accused testified to the police about the Stork’s Nest, for example . According to the daily Pr\u00e1vo,<\/a> criminal investigators interrogated the former manager of Farma \u010cap\u00ed hn\u00edzdo on Wednesday, who, according to the Seznam Zpr\u00e1vy<\/a> website, reported to the plaintiffs in the summer, saying that he had not told the investigators the full truth in earlier interrogations in 2017 and 2018 and wants to supplement his statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The son of Prime Minister Andrej Babi\u0161 today testified to the police for more than six hours in the case of a 50 million subsidy for the construction of the Stork’s Nest farm.\u00a0Andrej Babi\u0161 Jr., who was also originally charged in the case and whose prosecution was later stopped, told reporters that his father had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n