Head of the Office of the President of the Republic Vratislav Mynář.
Olomouc/Ostrava – The Olomouc branch of the Ostrava Regional Court overturned the decision of the Ministry of Finance, according to which Chancellor Vratislav Mynár's company Clever Management does not have to return a six million dollar subsidy from the European Union. The court published this information, which was brought to the attention of the Seznam Zprávy server, on its official board. The ministry will probably deal with the case again. But the verdict is not final yet. The original decision was issued by the ministry when it was headed by Alena Schillerová (ANO).
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Judge Barbora Berková stated in the judgment that she annuls the decision of the ministry, according to which Mynář's company did not have to return the subsidy. Remands the case for further proceedings. Attorney Lukáš Trojan, who represents Mynář's firm Clever Management, did not want to comment on the case for Seznam Zprávy. ČTK investigates the statement of Vratislav Mynář, who is accused of subsidy fraud because of this subsidy case. According to Deník N, at the end of last year, Clever Management sent a request to the Ministry of Regional Development that it wanted to return the subsidy.
The office of the Regional Council of the Central Moravian Cohesion Region, which administers the distribution of part of the EU subsidies, allocated the European subsidy for the boarding house in Osvětimany in Uherskohradiště region to Mynář's company Clever Management. After an inspection of the funding, in which it encountered doubts, the authority asked the police to verify the subsidy. According to the office, Clever Management, contrary to the instructions, did not state in the subsidy application that the building was previously subsidized by the Ministry of Education. In February 2021, the police charged Mynar with the crime of damaging the financial interests of the European Union.
The Olomouc court dealt with the case after the supreme prosecutor Igor Stříž approached it about the subsidy. He was invited to file a lawsuit by the Regional Council of the Central Moravian Cohesion Region, which originally provided the subsidy. She demanded its return because new facts appeared that called into question its award.
After filing a lawsuit, the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office stated that the Ministry's decision, which made it impossible to return the subsidy, was, in their opinion, illegal. At the same time, according to the head of the plaintiffs, in this case there was also a serious public interest in having this decision reviewed by the court.
In its decision, the Ministry of Finance justified its decision to side with Clever Management, among other things, because in the decision-making about the subsidy, there was also an error on the side of the subsidy office. Moreover, according to him, it was not a case of such serious misconduct that the support had to be returned. However, the Regional Council of the Central Moravian Cohesion Region did not agree to this in the initiative it previously sent to the supreme prosecutor.
