Update: 25.05.2023 00:15
Prague – The Prague Municipal Court will issue a verdict today in the case of the Viktoriagruppe company and the missing Czech diesel fuel in the Bavarian warehouse. Petr Malý, the manager of the bankrupt German company, three managers of the Czech branch and the company itself face the indictment in the case. In his closing speech, the public prosecutor proposed to send all four men to prison for 7.5 to 10 years and to impose a ban on Viktoriagruppe from protecting material reserves. According to the indictment, the quartet defrauded the State Material Reserves Administration (SSHR) of at least 108 million crowns. All the defendants deny the guilt.
The municipal court is dealing with the case for the second time. Last year, he found the company, Malé and one of the managers of the company’s spin-off plant located in Dolní Břežany, Lubomír Novotné, guilty. He acquitted two other men – Jaroslav Slavík and MIroslav Holub of the charges without authority.
SSHR paid the company a fee for storing Czech diesel, the amount of which depended on the amount of fuel stored. Viktoriagruppe, on the other hand, was to pay a fine if it did not manage to store the agreed amount of diesel on time. According to the public prosecutor, the company did not really manage to do this and decided to cover it up by fictitiously increasing diesel stocks with two false receipts sent to SSHR for reimbursement. In addition, from November 2012 to January 2013, the defendants allegedly removed three train sets of diesel for which SSHR was not reimbursed.
When Viktoriagruppe ended up insolvent in 2015, a legal battle began over the stored stock. In the end, after negotiations with the bankruptcy administrator, the Czech Republic gradually managed to move the diesel back from the Bavarian Krailling. However, after the last tanker arrived from Germany, the measurement confirmed fears that some of the fuel was missing. SSHR was short of 6.3 million liters of fuel. The administration was in dispute with the insolvency administrator about the ownership of the diesel fuel. The District Court for Prague 5 ruled without jurisdiction in April that the fuel belongs to SSHR.
Source: České noviny – hlavní události by www.ceskenoviny.cz.
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