Český rozhlas Radiožurnál reported on the development of the case on the iROZHLAS.cz website on Friday. In total, the police have already charged eight companies and six people in the case.
Prosecutor Ondřej Trčka informed last week about the initiation of the prosecution of another person and three companies. He did not name the accused. According to Radiožurnál, it concerns 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 is the association Orel Jednota Praha Balkán, controlled by Flégl, through which, according to the police, public money flowed from the union to the private accounts of those prosecuted.
In addition to Flégl and the long-time head of ČTS Kaderka, former head of the financial department Hana Baierová, former secretary of the association Jakub Fastr and coach Daniel Vacek, who leads the national team Tomáš Macháč, are accused in the case of tennis subsidies. Kaderka and Flégl were detained for three months after the outbreak of the case 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 examining 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.
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, before that, the association manipulated finances from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
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