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Lukáš Valášek wrote that the director of the State Agricultural Intervention Fund, Petr Dlouhý, was leaving his position. Valášek stated that Dlouhý repeatedly defended the payment of hundreds of millions in subsidies to Agrofert and refused to recover billions from the past despite the proven conflict of interest of Andrej Babiš. He added that Dlouhý's successor would face significant decisions. According to Valášek, the fund recently hired lawyers for up to eight million crowns to assess whether it should recover national subsidies from Agrofert, but did not set a deadline for them. In the meantime, he said, government MPs were advocating a law that would make recovery time-barred. https://t.co/ya537kxRqN #politika #dotace #Agrofert (translated)

Journalist Lukáš Valášek wrote that the project manager for children's groups, costing tens of millions of crowns, became the twenty-five-year-old daughter of ANO deputy leader Robert Králíček. According to Valášek, due to a conflict of interest, the costs that should be covered by the European Union will instead be paid by the state budget. Králíček stated that his daughter's appointment was a coincidence and that he did not assist her career. His daughter has not commented on the matter. Valášek described that the advisor worked for Juchelka and the deputy mayor of Prague 8, Radomír Nepil, and simultaneously was involved in securing European subsidies for the city district and overseeing their disbursement at the ministry. According to his findings, there was a conflict of interest, and the projects she was involved with cannot be funded with European money. The ministry is, according to him, to cover tens of millions of crowns from the state budget; Juchelka left twice before his questions. Valášek also mentioned that Králíček's daughter's name was difficult to trace on the website and that after his inquiries, a photo of her being embraced by Nepil disappeared from her Facebook. Nepil reportedly refused to comment on the picture and hung up after the question. Valášek added that ANO is likely to remain at the helm of the city district after the elections and that the victorious movement 8žije is helping to oust STAN, TOP 09, ODS, and the Christian Democrats from the town hall. https://t.co/4fLhix6Lti #politika #korupce #EU (translated)

Lukáš Valášek thanked the ČT24 newsroom for the report on Yang Yi-min, whom he labeled as a Chinese propagandist. He stated that Yang is currently on trial accused of espionage for the Chinese communist government. Valášek questioned whether the government coalition would fulfill its promise to limit the crime of collaborating with a foreign power. According to him, this particular paragraph allowed the police to detain Yang. Previously, Yang had met with Jan Zahradil, a foreign policy advisor to Petr Macinka, the head of Motorists for Themselves. Valášek also wrote that according to the security community, China wants to exchange Yang for a Czech citizen detained in China. Although Petr Macinka asserted that the cases are unrelated, Valášek said that any potential exchange was decided by the court, not by politicians. https://t.co/UPgHMkzs18 #špionáž #Čína #justice (translated)

Lukáš Valášek stated that despite the minister's attacks, he will continue to fully perform his work. He thanked the readers for their support and wrote that without it, their work would have no effect. He added that he published the text below, which he believes triggered the minister's speech. #podpora #politika #práce (translated)

Lukáš Valášek wrote that Foreign Minister Petr Macinka rejected support for the Finnish proposal to limit the entry of hundreds of thousands of Russians into the EU. According to him, Macinka claimed that the initiative had no chance of success. Valášek added that the Czech Republic had applied a similar regime, but Russians could enter the country from neighboring states. According to Valášek, Macinka's decision went against the positions of the top leadership of the Foreign Ministry, as was evident from internal communications he had access to. Čeněk Hajný, head of the director’s office of the European Department of the Ministry, reportedly recommended joining the Finnish initiative because its content was in line with Czech positions. Valášek stated that Russians were obtaining about half a million visas to the EU each year, with the most being issued by Italy and Spain. Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen reportedly pointed out in a letter to Prague the Russian attacks on Ukraine as well as the threat of sabotage and other hybrid operations in the EU. She proposed not to issue visas for non-essential travel, including tourism. https://t.co/VYoTXSXV92 #Rusko #EU #viza (translated)

Lukáš Valášek stated that the minister cited a draft report from the Supreme Audit Office, even though the minister's spokesperson insisted on Tuesday that she could not comment on it. Valášek emphasized that neither he nor the report claims that the Czech Republic will lose European funds. He wrote that due to the conflict of interest of the minister's former close associate in the area of subsidies, plans could not be made to pay for already completed projects worth tens of millions of crowns, and thus the funds will have to be found elsewhere. He called on the minister to explain where in the ministry's budget he will find the money and at the expense of what. #Česko #evropsképenny #dotace (translated)

Lukáš Valášek wrote that he attempted to ask Minister of Labor Aleš Juchelka how he resolved the conflict of interest involving his close collaborator Alexandra Semancová in connection with subsidies. According to him, this happened seven months after he highlighted the case. Juchelka allegedly responded to Valášek that he was doing "nasty journalism" and claimed that there was no harm caused. Valášek stated that he obtained a draft protocol from the Supreme Audit Office, which he claimed confirmed his earlier findings. According to the cited draft, the Supreme Audit Office calculated costs to the state budget of 82,988,686.09 crowns for three projects due to the identified conflict of interest. Valášek also wrote that the office mentioned improperly paid millions and violations of budgetary discipline. He criticized the Ministry of Labor for refusing to provide him with documents for expert assessment of the case and claimed that it had been violating the information law for months. According to Valášek, the ministry recently also refused to release a legal analysis from the firm Rowan Legal, which Juchelka commissioned to assess possible damages and a potential criminal complaint against Semancová. Valášek also asked whether Prime Minister Andrej Babiš would respond to the findings. He reminded that Babiš and Juchelka criticized his work at a summer press conference, calling it a campaign and lying. https://t.co/JAsUmULhx8 #ČeskáRepublika #Novinářství #Korupce (translated)

Lukáš Valášek wrote that the state-owned company Čepro has paid Agrofert over 19 billion crowns for contracts without a public tender since 2017. According to him, Čepro began to claim that it did not have to hold public tenders after the law prohibiting companies owned by politicians from obtaining public contracts came into effect. Valášek stated that the company has relied on the opinion of the then vice-chairwoman of the Office for Protection of Competition (ÚOHS), who left the office due to suspicions of manipulating decisions in favor of representatives of the ANO party, Jaroslav Faltýnek and Jiří Švachula. According to him, she signed the opinion before her departure. In preparing it, she was supposed to have used documents from the ministries led by Alena Schillerová and Karel Havlíček, which, according to Valášek, downplayed Čepro's exceptional position, even though it is captured in state strategies. According to Valášek, the government of Petr Fiala did not address the matter, and the ministries, now again under the control of Havlíček and Schillerová, do not want to reopen it based on their statements. Čepro also refused to inform him how many contracts it has already awarded to Agrofert under the new government of Andrej Babiš, despite the ÚOHS ruling that the company is subject to the information law at the request of the Pirate Party's analytical team. Valášek added that even the ÚOHS led by Petr Mlsna, whom Babiš appointed, did not see a reason for a review. According to Valášek, the Prime Minister decided whether the government would extend Mlsna's mandate for additional years. https://t.co/O1ekCFdPwn #Česko #politika #korupce (translated)

Lukáš Valášek stated that in Montenegro, the police detained Michail Zvinchuk, the head of the Russian propaganda center Rybar, whose activities in the Czech Republic he uncovered three weeks ago. According to Valášek, Montenegrin authorities suspected Zvinchuk of attempting to disrupt the country's path towards the EU. Zvinchuk led a Telegram channel that, according to the author, was followed by 1.5 million people. Valášek wrote that together with Zvinchuk, his wife and three associates were detained after he ridiculed customs officers on social media over a document check, calling them fools. According to him, Zvinchuk was on the EU sanctions list for facilitating Russian massacres in Ukraine and was therefore not allowed to enter its territory. Valášek also noted that other crews connected with Rybar moved freely within the Schengen area, and that two of Zvinchuk's Russian associates, whom he said his team lured into a trap, were expelled from the Czech Republic but had been living in Germany long-term. https://t.co/aeLh26QoVr #Rusko #Propaganda #EU (translated)

Lukáš Valášek stated that a Russian-speaking man from a hidden number repeatedly threatened his colleague Karolína Brodníčková from Novinky over the phone. He called the intimidation of journalists completely unacceptable and expressed hope that the police, who are handling the case, will find the perpetrator. https://t.co/VlujJaLo0v #novináři #bezpečnost #zprávy (translated)

Lukáš Valášek thanked ČT24 Newsroom for the report on the ban that he claims he received in the Chamber after filming an interview with the Deputy Chairman of SPD, Radim Fiala. According to Valášek, Fiala admitted in the interview to a possible tax evasion. Valášek stated that the report showed how restrictions in the Chamber work. #politika #Sněmovna #zákon (translated)

Lukáš Valášek stated that the Chief of General Staff of the Czech Army, Miroslav Hlaváč, canceled the patronage of the conference several hours after the publication of his text, which had previously been granted by his representative. According to Valášek, this occurred after he and Kristýna Ciroková described in Seznam Zprávy the connections of the organizer, former StB collaborator Petr Marvart, to pro-Russian actors. At the conference, representatives of the Czech Army were supposed to discuss, among other things, air defense; Valášek reminded that experts had warned about Russian air attacks on NATO. https://t.co/FzoMc116zp #ČeskáArmáda #RuskéHrozby #Bezpečnost (translated)

Lukáš Valášek stated that the editors-in-chief of forty Czech media outlets issued a joint appeal to Czech politicians. According to him, they asked them to reject violence in public debate and to provide official information from authorities to everyone without distinction. https://t.co/XMuT9HGCJA https://t.co/IBVtDFPDzq #žurnalistika #politika #násilí (translated)

Lukáš Valášek wrote that the leadership of the Czech army was supposed to discuss air defense at the Future Air Force conference. According to him, the event was organized by Petr Markvart, whom he labeled as a former collaborator of the StB. The conference was patronized by Deputy Chief of the General Staff Petr Čepelka. Valášek stated that Markvart had appeared a month earlier at another event on a panel with a sanctioned ideologue of Vladimir Putin, who, according to him, threatened the West with nuclear weapons. He also wrote that Markvart has an association with former police president Stanislav Novotný, who, according to him, is now involved in Russian propaganda and gave an interview directly in Moscow last year. According to Valášek, Markvart was also friends with Marek Obrtel, the head of the National Guard. Valášek reminded that Obrtel, a former soldier, announced his relinquishment of a NATO award because he considered the alliance a criminal organization, and openly expressed sympathy for Russia. Valášek added that since last week he had unsuccessfully requested a statement from the Ministry of Defense regarding the patronage. Čepelka reportedly stated that he does not comment on the political activities of private individuals and that the patronage pertains to the professional program. Markvart was, according to Valášek, the executive director of the conference. https://t.co/zhmc7NLTs9 #obrana #armáda #konference (translated)

❗️When we tried to ask the director of the Czech Environmental Inspectorate, Pavel Straka, about the criminal past of his family, which he himself was allegedly involved in according to a former court lawyer, he ran away from us. ❗️The chief official, who has a decisive say in the (non)resolution of billion-dollar environmental cases, came to introduce himself to the legislators today after months of delays. ❗️However, the lawmakers of the governing coalition voted that the meeting would be closed to the public. Therefore, the official, who prohibited his subordinates from putting even his photograph on the website and tried to keep his biography secret, will not be heard speaking in public again. https://t.co/RGiklSrhVn #ekologie #Českáinspekcizivotníhoprostředí #politika (translated)

🔴 In the last week, I have blocked more pro-Russian trolls across social media than I did in the previous six months. Our investigative series on Russian influence is clearly attracting attention. 🔴 So a little reminder: Don't engage with these accounts by responding to them, even if they try to provoke you. 🔴 The algorithms that drive this platform may then think these accounts are relevant, increasing their content reach. 🔴 A reasonable solution? Immediate block. #ProruskéTrole #Investigation #SociálníSítě (translated)

❗️Společnost pro obranu svobody projevu (SOSP) opakovaně kritizuje takzvaný „deep state“, který se údajně pokouší ovlivňovat chod státu. ❗️Ze spolku přišla dělat premiérovi Andreji Babišovi (ANO) poradkyni Natálie Vachatová, aby se následně podílela na přípravě zákona, o němž autoři tvrdili, že obnaží skryté zasahování neziskových organizací do politiky. Podle expertů byl ovšem draft horší než norma, která likviduje občanskou společnost v Putinově Rusku. ❗️Z možného nelegálního zasahování do politiky ovšem nyní podezřívají experti ministerstva spravedlnosti právě Společnost pro obranu svobody projevu. ❗️Dospěli k tomu, že je důvodně podezřelá z lobbování bez potřebné registrace a zahájili tak s ní přestupkové řízení. To může skončit pokutou až milion korun. ❗️Možné důkazy přitom volně visí na interernetu, kde schůzky nad zákony aktéři prezentovali. https://t.co/52Bc2qcWvY #svobodaProjevu #politika #lobbing