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Robert Zelenka, the previous chairman of the board of the Entrepreneurial Credit score Union (PDZ), has died. The police had been searching for him since Friday. He was the primary to deliver the knowledge server iDNES.cz.
“Sadly, the person was discovered with no indicators of life,” stated Prague police spokesperson Eva Kropáčová.
In keeping with Seznam Zpráv info, the police got here to the conclusion that it was a suicide, which Kropáčová confirmed. “The fault of others has been dominated out,” the editors stated when requested.
As Seznam Právy beforehand reported, the police started looking for Zelenka on Friday. “Within the morning, he took his daughter to highschool in Prague-Troj after which drove off in his Mazda 6 car, license plate quantity: 8AB 7871, grey, to an undisclosed location and has not made himself identified till now. On condition that the lacking individual has just lately been scuffling with psychological issues and has nervousness states, it can’t be dominated out that his life could also be in peril,” police stated Friday.
For a few years, Zelenka stood by the casual head of the PDZ, Kamil Bahbouh.
Picture: Police of the Czech Republic
The police had been searching for Robert Zelenka since Friday.
On a number of chairs
In keeping with obtainable info, Robert Zelenka first got here to the pawnshop based within the Nineties by Příbram lawyer Antonín Janák round 2004, when he formally represented the Dutch firm Formuliance BV, which was among the many members of the camp.
Equally, as a lawyer primarily based on energy of legal professional, he represented different corporations linked to the pawnshop and even acted as their proprietor (Galerie Gema, Gemacom, Distav development, Wastech, Gozer Privatstiftung or Gozer Monetary Companies). To today, there’s a suspicion that he was simply protecting up the actual house owners and following the directions of the unofficial boss, Kamil Bahbouh. Even Bahbouh has not but responded to the query of what he is aware of about Zelenka’s final days.
Zelenka was sitting on a number of chairs. Within the function of legal professional, he collaborated with legal professional Štěpánka Bahbouhová, the spouse of Kamil Bahbouh. At one time, he was additionally the life associate of the previous chairman of the board of administrators, Tereza Bisová.
Throughout the credit score union, he first labored within the credit score committee, then for a few years he was the chairman of the management committee (2009 to 2021). Due to this fact, he was supposed to observe whether or not non-standard operations have been going down within the monetary micro-institution and whether or not there was, for instance, cash laundering.
Paradoxically, Zelenka turned the chairman of the board in 2021, after the CNB found basic deficiencies throughout an inspection of the camp and requested for correction.
A while in the past, Martin Borovka, a former member of the credit score union and head of the massive development firm Eurovia, who Zelenka helped with the switch of all household properties to the Austrian basis Jonak-Privatstiftung, described his several-year relationship with Zelenka to the editors a while in the past.
“Somebody launched Mr. Zelenka to me, however who and the place, I do not know anymore, I do not keep in mind. It had no reference to membership within the pawnshop,” stated Borovka. It’s stated that he used Zelenka’s companies for the following 5 years, and the benefit of this lawyer was that he was the one lawyer he knew who spoke German and on the similar time knew the system of operation of Austrian non-public foundations.
Zamítavé gesture
Seznam The Information tried to speak to Robert Zelenko personally in April, when a rare PDZ members’ assembly was held on the Prague lawyer Petr Vališ, the place the opportunity of liquidation was additionally to be mentioned.
Earlier than the assembly, Vališ informed the editor that it was “unimaginable to speak to Zelenka” and referred to the media consultant of Kampelička. After the assembly, Zelenka himself refused the interview. By way of the window of his automobile, he made a dismissive gesture along with his hand to point that he was not going to speak about something. Then he left.
The following membership assembly is to be held simply earlier than the beginning of the vacations – on Friday, June 28 within the early night. The invitation, which appeared on the pawnshop’s web site in latest days, is signed by the deceased chairman of the board of administrators.
With the contribution of Vojtěch Blažek.
Picture: Entrepreneurial Credit score Union
Invitation to the following membership assembly.
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