Aktualne.cz CzechNews brings you a taste of this week's issue of its partner publication, English-language investigative weekly Czech Insider.
The new issue will be available here at 4 PM (CET).
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CEZ chief Daniel Benes may lose his position
Revealed - Sources from CEZ, the Czech energy sector giant, say that CEO Daniel Benes may lose his job. Strategic division director Pavel Cyrani is considered Benes' most likely successor. It would be the largest change in the state-owned company's management since Martin Roman stepped down as CEO in 2011. Roman was replaced by Daniel Benes, who started to implement changes in the management structure of CEZ daughter companies... (Read more here)
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Police want to prosecute ex-Defense Minister Parkanova for Omnipol deal
Behind the scenes - Police wants to prosecute former Defense Minister Vlasta Parkanova, currently a deputy for TOP 09, for the acquisition of the Spanish CASA aircraft she orchestrated as the defense minister in 2009. The deal was very unprofitable for the Treasury, but suspiciously profitable for Czech arms-trading firm Omnipol that acted as the intermediary... (Read more here)
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Novaya Gazeta journalist details death threats from senior official
Foreign - Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor-in-chief of Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, hastily left the country. "There are direct and real concerns for his life. Sokolov was threatened by the very chairman of the Russian Investigation Committee. That's why we sent him abroad," Sokolov's colleague from Novaya Gazeta Vitaly Yaroshevsky said to Czech Insider... (Read more here)
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Czech Insider is an English-language weekly edition of Deník Insider ("Insider Daily"), a Czech subscription-only daily newspaper prepared by the creators of Aktualne.cz that provides original investigative insight into the top tiers of Czech politics and business.
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