Anti-corruption police raided the offices of Prague’s Public Transit
Company, or DPP, Friday morning. The case is supervised by the Prague High
State Attorney’s office, which has not yet released any information
about
the cause or findings of the raid. The company’s newly appointed
director
Magdalena Češková said the search was connected to the charges filed on
Wednesday by DPP’s former director general Vladimír Lich against
potentially fraudulent activities of the company’s former managers. Ms.
Češková also said that members of the non-profit organization
Transparency International assisted the police in the raid, and that DPP
will file a complaint as a result.
Lich was unexpected sacked from his post of chairman of the board of
directors on Wednesday, and from his position as director the next day on
the grounds of bad management. Prague mayor Bohuslav Sobotka expressed
vehement disagreement with the move.