Vojtěch Flégl (left) Source: Profimedia
PRAGUE – In the case of fraud with tennis subsidies, in which the former head of the Czech Tennis Association (ČTS) Ivo Kaderka figures, the police are also prosecuting the wife of the influential official Vojtěch Flégl and her two companies.
The association Orel Jednota Praha Balkán was also accused, through which, according to the police, the group transferred state subsidies to the accounts of private companies. Český rozhlas-radiožurnál reported on the development of the case on the website iROZHLAS.cz. In total, the police have already charged eight companies and six people in the case.
Last week, prosecutor Ondřej Trčka informed about the initiation of the prosecution of another person and three companies. He did not name the accused. According to Radiožurnál, it is Veronika Fléglova and the companies Familio and Familio Rehabilitace, in which the wife of an influential tennis official has a half share.
Another newly accused person is the Orel Jednota Praha Balkán association, controlled by Flégl, through which, according to the police, public money flowed from the union to the private accounts of those prosecuted.
More charges have been added in the case of extensive subsidy fraud in the Czech Tennis Association. Detectives are now prosecuting the wife of official Flégl and her two companies. The association through which the group was supposed to transfer state subsidies to the accounts of private companies was also accused.
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Several persons are accused
In addition to Flégl and the long-time head of ČTS Kaderka, former head of the financial department Hana Baierová, former secretary of the union Jakub Fastr and coach Daniel Vacek, who leads the representative Tomáš Macháč, are accused in the case of tennis subsidies.
Kaderka and Flégl were detained for three months after the case broke out and later resigned from their positions. Both are being investigated at large, denying criminal activity.
The server iSport.cz reported last week that detectives from the National Headquarters against Organized Crime, after checking the management of the tennis association until 2017, calculated the damage at 52 million crowns. Originally, it was supposed to amount to almost 15 million.
Photo gallery (2) Ivo Kaderka Source: Profimedia
Except for one accused natural person, all face up to ten years in prison for subsidy fraud and causing large-scale damage. What is new in the case is that the criminal activity was supposed to have taken place even before the establishment of the National Sports Agency, which was founded in 2019. According to the police, the union previously manipulated finances from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Education.
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