Source: Politico
“Former Czech Prime Minister and election frontrunner Andrej Babiš is in legal jeopardy once again after Prague’s High Court on Monday overturned an earlier ruling clearing him of wrongdoing in a €2 million EU subsidy fraud. The case now returns to the same Prague district court that in February 2024 acquitted Babiš and his former advisor and current Patriots for Europe MEP Jana Nagyová of fiddling ownership documents so the former leader’s agriculture holding qualified for the subsidy. The High Court said the lower court had not evaluated the evidence properly. The reversal comes only months before Czech parliamentary elections with Babiš, leader of the opposition right-wing populist ANO party, the frontrunner on 31 percent support.” (06/23/25)