No one got paid
2005-12-21
Stanislav Gross went before the Unipetrol commission and
declared with puppy-dog eyes that the deal to sell the
petrochemical company to PKN Orlen of Poland was one of the
most transparent Czech privatizations. His former aide, Zdeněk
Doležel, denied that he had sought a Kč 5m bribe to set up a
meeting with Gross on the Unipetrol issue. Mirek Topolánek said
he had heard it was actually 5m euros, and the rumor has been
that a total of E42m in bribes were paid out. The whole matter is
now headed for the courts, and Miloš Zeman has hinted that he
expects more shocking revelations. Why all the controversy, if
no one got paid, as Gross and Doležel claim? One insider
supplied us with a possible explanation: No one got paid. For
legal reasons, we won't explain the subtlety of this, but suffice it
to say that Andrej Babiš of Agrofert might not have upheld his
end of the deal.
[Czech Republic corruption bribery]
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