The A-Team

HN published a list yesterday of 10 scandals the coalition needs to address for cleaning up the relationship between politics and business, but missing from the list was the biggest one of them all. Who owns Appian/Škoda, the secretive company that gets tens of billions of crowns in business from ČEZ, Czech Railways and DP Praha? Is one of the owners Martin Roman of ČEZ? By dint of their past or current positions, the following leading politicians and businessmen should know the answer: Miroslav Kalousek, Bohuslav Sobotka, Ivan Fuksa, Milan Urban, Petr Bendl, Martin Kocourek, David Vodrážka, Pavel Bém, Daniel Beneš, Petr Žaluda, Miroslav Dvořák, Martin Dvořák and, of course, Martin Roman himself. Either they do not know and are criminally incompetent, or they do know and could be criminally liable for what might well be the CR's biggest case of conflict of interest and shareholder fraud. [Czech Republic České dráhy Dopravní podnik Prague Airport]