Prague, Nov 15 (CTK) – Detectives from the National Centre against Organised Crime (NCOZ) have detained the hacker who blackmailed Czech Deputy PM and Finance Minister Andrej Babis (ANO), the Seznam Zpravy server reported yesterday.
The man managed to break into the Facebook account of Babis’s daughter and download some photographs she shared with her friends from it.
The police refused to officially comment on the case.
Babis confirmed the information on a hacker’s attack on his family.
“I have filed criminal complaints against it. The police have questioned me a few times in the case,” billionaire businessman Babis told the server.
He also said he had information about the police detaining the culprit.
Babis connected the attack with the Anonymous hackers’ group that attacked the website of his Agrofert holding in the summer.
The blackmailing was motivated politically, by the controversial electronic sales registration (EET), which his office prepared, he said.
“They did this to make me terminate the EET project,” Babis said.
However, the detained man is not likely an Anonymous member, the server said.
Photos from Babis’s privacy and some alleged documents on the Capi hnizdo case appeared on Facebook previously.
In this case, Babis is suspected of an unauthorised drawing of an EU subsidy for the construction of the Capi Hnizdo (Stork Nest) farm and luxurious holiday resort, which is owned by his Agrofert Holding now.
The Anonymous representatives denied being behind the attacks in an interview with the Lupa.cz server.
This has been the third case in which Babis and his family faced a threat of crime in the three years he has been a member of the coalition government of the Social Democrats (CSSD), his ANO and the Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL).
Last year, information emerged about a Balkan gang that was considering kidnapping Babis’s daughter. Five men entangled in the case have been brought to court.
In January 2015, the Slovenian police detained an Italian man who sent an envelope with cyanide to Babis, the Seznam Zpravy server wrote.
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