Prague, Jan 17 (CTK) – The anti-corruption police have accused 14 people of unlawful manipulations with insolvency proceedings after the Friday raid in the Spolchemie chemical plant in Usti nad Labem, north Bohemia, state attorney Adam Borgula writes on the website of the Prague High State Attorney’s Office yesterday.
The suspects were accused of harming and favouring creditors, influencing insolvency courts, scheming, bribing, fraud, money laundering, organised crime and contriving bankruptcy in order to gain money.
Those who influenced judges face the highest sentence of up to 12 years in prison if their guilt is proved.
Prague High State Attorney Lenka Bradacova told CTK yesterday that a court decided that four of the suspects would be placed into pre-trial detention because of fear that they might influence witnesses and other suspects and that they might continue with their criminal activity.
Bradacova told public Czech Television (CT) that the police failed to catch two people on Friday.
She admitted that the case was related to the controversial Key Investments firm.
On January 15, the police raided the Spolchemie plant, allegedly in connection with the Via Chem Group. The raid in the seat of the regional court in Ceske Budejovice, south Bohemia, is said to be related to the fact that this court deals with the insolvency of the indebted Via Chem Group.
Media speculated that the raid concerned controversial businessman Petr Sisak.
The public Czech Television (CT) reported that the police searched homes or offices of lawyers Robert Vladyka Jr, Jan Pacovsky and Ivo Hala who was also an insolvency administrator.
The only shareholder of Via Chem Group is Euro Capital Alliance seated in the Virgin Islands.
Bradacova did not say whether the case concerned Sisak or Hala.
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