Prague’s mayor has named a Czech-American businessman Vladimír Lich as de facto director general of DPP — the Czech capital’s scandal-ridden public transport firm — for a two-year term. Under Lich’s leadership as “crisis manager,” all cases of alleged dodgy deals are to investigated in tandem with a broader review of how DPP has allocated public funds and contracted. Lich worked in global consultancy A.T. Kearney’s Czech office from 1989 until last year.

Still to be confirmed but clearly on the horizon, the sale of the Czech gas pipeline company Net4Gas by its German owner RWE is clearly a matter of concern for the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO). Minister Martin Kuba on Tuesday expressed his fears over the prospects of a non-strategic buyer ready to sell for a quick profit when the opportunity arose but also admitted he was legislatively powerless to intervene.

The Agriculture Ministry’s appointment of auditor HZ Consult to control Budějovický Budvar is steeped in controversy. The relatively small firm has been was linked to a financing scandal involving Public Affairs (VV) fundraiser MP Michal Babák and, indirectly, with the dubious brokerage Key Investments. It is controlled by a co-owner of auditor Bene Factum, which oversees Babák’s business activities.