Billionaire Czech ex-PM Babis acquitted in EU fraud case

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68-year-old Andrej Babis has always denied any wrongdoing, calling the trial “a political process” ahead of the presidential election starting on Friday. theSun theSundaily andrejbabis acquittal fraud EuropeanUnion subsidy election WorldNews

: A Prague court acquitted billionaire former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis in an EU subsidy fraud case on Monday, only four days before he runs in a presidential election.

“The deed described in the indictment is not a crime,“ Judge Jan Sott said after delivering the verdict. Alongside former high-ranking NATO general Petr Pavel and economist Danuse Nerudova, Babis is one of three odds-on favourites to reach a second-round run-off scheduled for the end of January.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

 

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