Along with Zelezny, five other suspects were acquitted. The verdict has not taken effect as the state attorney said he would decide whether to appeal it. In the trial, one of three Zelezny was faced with, he was prosecuted for vast tax evasion in transferring a stake in the CET 21 company, the holder of Nova's broadcasting licence, in the mid-1990s. He was charged of illegally depriving the state of more than 38 million crowns, along with his lawyer Ales Rozehnal and CET 21 shareholders Fedor Gal, Josef Alan and Vlastimil Venclik. Another shareholder, Peter Huncik, a Slovak citizen, was not bound to pay tax in the Czech Republic and he was threfore prosecuted for aiding in committing an offence. They faced up to Czech MEP need not apologise to colleague for utterances - court ...
Czech regional, Senate elections to take place in autumn 2008 ... eight years in prison, if found guilty. The police suspected Zelezny of having agreed with his partners that they would transfer to him their 43.31 percent stake in CET 21 s.r.o.
for more than 5 million dollars. Although Zelezny paid the sum to them, they all pretended having settled the deal by means of the shares in CET 21 a.s., a joint stock company they established for this purpose, the police said. Subsequently the suspects did not give true information in their tax returns for 1996, the police said. According to the plaintiff, the transfer of the CET 21 a.s. shares served to cover up tansfers of the stakes in CET 21 s.r.o., and the joint stock company was nothing but "an empty case." All suspects dismissed the accusations. ($1=15.430 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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