Members of the Russian Embassy in Prague were flying home Monday, even as Moscow expelled Czech diplomats in Russia. PRAGUE: The Czech government said on Monday it would eliminate Russia's Rosatom from a multi-billion-euro tender to build a new unit at a local nuclear plant because of the diplomatic row with Moscow.
The decision leaves France's EdF, South Korea's KHNP and US-based Westinghouse in play for a contract to build the new unit at the southern Dukovany plant by 2036. Citing an intelligence report, the Czech government has said Russia's military secret service GRU orchestrated a 2014 explosion that killed two people, followed by a smaller one the same year.Czech police are seeking two men in connection with the blast, who British authorities also identified as suspects in the 2018 poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury.
Top Czech prosecutor Pavel Zeman said the two had arrived in the Czech Republic several days before the first blast, identifying themselves as arms dealers.The purported Bulgarian client, the Emco company owned by entrepreneur Emilian Gebrev, said it had not planned any transport of arms from the depot"in the months before, during and at least a year after the explosions, neither to Bulgaria nor to any third country.
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