{"id":184057,"date":"2023-01-09T20:28:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=184057"},"modified":"2023-01-09T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:28:27","slug":"former-pm-cleared-of-fraud-by-czech-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/former-pm-cleared-of-fraud-by-czech-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM cleared of fraud by Czech court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184058\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1199\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605.jpeg 1199w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605-696x391.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605-1068x600.jpeg 1068w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/46126510_605-747x420.jpeg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1199px) 100vw, 1199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Prague court has acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a \u20ac1.8m case involving European Union subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>A prosecutor had requested a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of 10 million Czech koruna (\u20ac416,000) for the populist billionaire. The prosecution can still appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Babis pleaded not guilty and repeatedly said the charges against him were politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t present at Prague\u2019s Municipal Court on Monday. His former associate, Jana Nagyova, who signed the subsidy request, was also acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINNOCENT!\u201d Babis tweeted after the verdict. \u201cI\u2019m really glad that we have an independent judiciary and the court confirmed what I kept saying from the beginning. That I am innocent and haven\u2019t done anything illegal.\u201d<br \/>\nThe ruling is a boost for Babis just days before the first round of the Czech presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Babis is considered a front-runner in Friday\u2019s election, along with retired army General Petr Pavel, former chairman of NATO\u2019s military committee, and former university rector Danuse Nerudova.<\/p>\n<p>The case involved a farm, known as the Stork\u2019s Nest, which received EU subsidies after its ownership was transferred from the Babis-owned Agrofert conglomerate of around 250 companies to Babis\u2019 family members. Later, Agrofert again took ownership of the farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prague court has acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a \u20ac1.8m case involving European Union subsidies. A prosecutor had requested a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of 10 million Czech koruna (\u20ac416,000) for the populist billionaire. The prosecution can still appeal. Babis pleaded not guilty and repeatedly said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184059,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184057\/revisions\/184059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}