The police have been in search of Robert Zelenka, the chairman of the board of the Entrepreneurial Credit score Union (PDZ), since Friday. A day later, on Saturday, in response to the police, Zelenka was discovered with out indicators of life. “In reference to yesterday’s seek for a lacking man, we’re canceling the search, saying that the person was sadly discovered with out indicators of life. He died by no fault of others, he dedicated suicide,” Prague police spokeswoman Eva Kropáčová advised Echo24 on Saturday afternoon.
Zelenka was the formal head of the financial institution, with which the Czech Nationwide Financial institution initiated proceedings geared toward revoking the license in March, attributable to severe deficiencies within the operation of the pawnshop. On the similar time, the financial crime department and the Excessive State Prosecutor’s Workplace in Prague, led by Lenka Bradáčová, additionally took an interest within the pawnshop. Kampelička grew to become extensively recognized in January because of the “forgotten million” case of Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS).
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The police had been in search of 49-year-old Robert Zelenka from Prague since Friday. It follows from police data of searches for individuals. However she deleted the recording on Saturday afternoon. “I can say that in reference to yesterday’s seek for a lacking man, we’re calling off the search, saying that the person was sadly discovered with out indicators of life. He died by nobody else’s fault, he dedicated suicide,” Kropáčová advised the Echo24 every day.
Lacking Robert Zelenka, formal head of the Entrepreneurial Credit score Union (PDZ). Photograph: Police of the Czech Republic
“On Friday morning, he took his daughter to high school in Prague-Troj after which drove his Mazda 6 (…) to an as but undisclosed location and has not made himself recognized till now,” she said beforehand police spokeswoman Kropáčová. In line with the police, Zelenka had lately been fighting psychological issues and had nervousness states.
Ties to influential ODS politicians
Previously, a slim circle of businessmen and folks related to ODS politicians moved round Podnikatelská družstevní połazna. Prime Minister Petr Fiala was additionally its shareholder for a number of years. In line with him, between 2015 and 2020, he invested 950,000 crowns within the camp.
Along with Prime Minister Fiala, Miloš Růžička, the Prime Minister’s advisor and co-founder of the PR company Bison & Rose, was additionally a long-term shareholder. The names of different politicians and businessmen additionally appeared within the media, for instance the previous deputy Petr Tluchoř and in addition the beforehand criminally prosecuted Deputy Minister of Transport Roman Boček. Each ODS politicians had been additionally actors within the Nagyová case. One other Fial’s advisor and elite surgeon from Prague’s IKEM hospital, Ivan Netuka, was additionally part of the camp. Netuka within the gentle of recent information this January in his personal phrases he acquired out of the pawn store.
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For a very long time it was not recognized about Fialo’s share, as a result of the prime minister, in violation of the legislation, didn’t state this reality in his property declarations, which he needed to submit yearly as a member of parliament. The Seznam Zprávy server drew consideration to Fiala’s share solely in the beginning of this 12 months. Journalists had been following suspicious monetary operations associated to “misplaced” tens of millions for weapons for the Ukrainian military, and the clues led the reporters to the headquarters of this camp in Celetná Avenue within the heart of Prague.
Till lately, the financial institution had 150 members and was one of many smallest monetary establishments within the nation. Nonetheless, after the publication of the case with the hidden share of Prime Minister Fiala, she confronted issues. The CNB, which has fined the institute previously, in addition to the Monetary Evaluation Workplace below the Ministry of Finance, first grew to become excited by it. Along with errors within the administration of the cooperative, the central financial institution was additionally bothered by inadequate prevention in opposition to the legalization of proceeds from legal exercise, i.e. cash laundering in standard phrases.
Distinctive intervention by the CNB
In March of this 12 months, the Central Financial institution and Podnikatelská družstevní zálafna began proceedings to revoke the license. The central financial institution defined the extraordinary step by saying that the credit score union didn’t persistently fulfill the prescribed authorized obligations. Since then, the credit score union could not settle for new deposits or grant loans or perform different money operations. He can solely pay purchasers their cash.
In line with CNB spokeswoman Štěpánka Filipová, the withdrawal of a credit score establishment’s license to function, whether or not at a financial institution or a credit score union, is often solely a “instrument of final resort”. “It’s accessed provided that the CNB is required to take action by legislation, or if not one of the different supervisory instruments (corrective measures, sanctions) seem like efficient. So it’s used exceptionally,” mentioned Filipová.
Lately, the central financial institution has withdrawn the license solely in particular person instances. The final time it was Sberbank CZ, which, nonetheless, was unable to fulfill its obligations to purchasers because of the panic attributable to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A person within the background of a area
The particular person of the controversial businessman Kamil Bahbouh performs an vital function within the background of the camp, whose identify repeatedly appeared within the media, for instance, in reference to the espionage scandal, throughout which the civil intelligence misplaced a whole lot of tens of millions of crowns. He was final reported by Seznam Zpravy as a pawnbroker who was additionally supposed to look within the case of misplaced cash initially meant for the acquisition of ammunition and weapons for the Ukrainian military.
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