Anticorruption Endowment files criminal charges against Minister of Labour

The Anticorruption Endowment has filed criminal charges against the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Jaromír Drábek, on suspicion of public orders made without tenders. The endowment’s chairman, Karel Janeček, says that suppliers for a number of new programmes at the ministry, such as payment information systems, were chosen without tenders and were companies close to the minister and his deputy, against whom they have also brought charges. The organisation adds that the new systems were created in spite of the fact that it would have been more economical to modify the old software. Unions have said the transfer to the new systems was moreover poorly prepared and that the computer system did not work.