India-based "coal baron" still to receive charges

Tereza Sidlova
4. 7. 2012 15:44
Five other ex-managers of MUS coal company have already received charges over firm's privatization in 1990s
Foto: Ludvík Hradilek

Karlovy Vary - The last of the six former managers of the MUS coal company who is still to receive the charges over the company's privatization is Antonin Kolacek.

Aktualne.cz learned this from Alexandra Rudysarova, a PR person of the six ex-managers. Rudysarova said that Kolacek currently lives in India.

Marek Cmejla, another of the accused who lives abroad, received the charges last week, added Rudysarova.

Jiri Divis received the charges when he came to Karlovy Vary for the summer film festival.

"None of my clients, in spite of many of them living abroad, is trying to escape the charges or hide from the Czech law," she said to Aktualne.cz.

"My clients have not done anything illegal, and they are prepared to prove it before independent court," said Rudysarova. 

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Anti-corruption police is prosecuting six people linked to the MUS coal company's privatization in the late-1990s. According to the investigators, the managers abused their position and insider information to move USD 150 million out of MUS and eventually used the money to buy the firm.

The ex-managers are prosecuted also in Switzerland.

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