MfD: Anti-corruption police to check Janoušek's activities

Prague, Sept 26 (CTK) - The Czech anti-corruption police will look into some activities of lobbyist Roman Janousek on the basis of the transcripts of wiretapped phone calls between Janousek and Prague City Hall officials including former mayor Pavel Bem, released by Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD), the daily writes Wednesday.

"We've completed the assessment of all information. We will deal with two cases ensuing from the wiretapped conversations you published [earlier this year]," anti-corruption police head Tomas Martinec told MfD.

The cases involved are the sale of plots by the city-run Prague Public Transport Company (DPP) and the suspicion that Janousek interfered in the City Hall's decisions about changes to the Prague zoning plan in the second half of the 2000s when the City Hall was controlled by the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Bem (ODS) was Prague mayor, the daily writes.

In the former case, the state probably lost tens of millions of crowns in the transaction. As far as changes to the city's zoning plan are concerned, they seem to have been decided on by Janousek in a Prague cafe, MfD writes.

In a separate case, the police have been investigating Janousek's road accident from March in which he, driving drunk, knocked down a woman with his car in Prague and drove away.