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01-20-2018, 12:51 PM
PRAGUE: The Czech parliament on Friday stripped billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babis of immunity as a lawmaker, allowing the police to investigate his alleged role in EU subsidy fraud from 2007.
?The decision was adopted,? said deputy parliament speaker Tomio Okamura in a 111-69 vote. Police have charged Babis with fraud, alleging the 63-year-old Slovak-born chemicals, food and media tycoon pulled his Stork Nest farm out of his sprawling Agrofert holding to make it eligible for an EU small-company subsidy before eventually putting it back in the holding.Babis told parliament on Friday that the request was politically motivated and labelled the Stork Nest case ?a purpose-built pseudo-cause?, insisting the police had ?no direct or indirect evidence that I committed a crime.? Babis is struggling to form a government after his minority cabinet comprising ANO members and unaffiliated experts lost a parliamentary confidence vote on Tuesday and subsequently resigned, which will take effect on January 24. But Czech President Milos Zeman has said he will give Babis a second chance to form a new cabinet. If needed, a third and final try to form a government falls to the parliament speaker, who is currently a member of Babis?s ANO movement. Campaigning on an anti-corruption, anti-euro ticket, Babis?s ANO (YES) scored a landslide win in October?s general election, but Babis could not put together a majority cabinet after partners turned their backs over the fraud charges.
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?The decision was adopted,? said deputy parliament speaker Tomio Okamura in a 111-69 vote. Police have charged Babis with fraud, alleging the 63-year-old Slovak-born chemicals, food and media tycoon pulled his Stork Nest farm out of his sprawling Agrofert holding to make it eligible for an EU small-company subsidy before eventually putting it back in the holding.Babis told parliament on Friday that the request was politically motivated and labelled the Stork Nest case ?a purpose-built pseudo-cause?, insisting the police had ?no direct or indirect evidence that I committed a crime.? Babis is struggling to form a government after his minority cabinet comprising ANO members and unaffiliated experts lost a parliamentary confidence vote on Tuesday and subsequently resigned, which will take effect on January 24. But Czech President Milos Zeman has said he will give Babis a second chance to form a new cabinet. If needed, a third and final try to form a government falls to the parliament speaker, who is currently a member of Babis?s ANO movement. Campaigning on an anti-corruption, anti-euro ticket, Babis?s ANO (YES) scored a landslide win in October?s general election, but Babis could not put together a majority cabinet after partners turned their backs over the fraud charges.
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