ProMoPro: Who is behind the offshores?

Methods used to trace the beneficial owners of offshore trusts around Škoda Plzeň could be employed in the murky ProMoPro case

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Tomáš Hlaváč | 29.09.2011

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The paper trail leads to an offshore whose director lives in Dominica; the Czech government could easily pursue it further, if there were the political will

Prague prosecutors have asked UK authorities for help in tracing companies related to a high-profile case of alleged fraud around the audiovisual services firm ProMoPro that occurred during the Czechs’ EU Presidency. Just as ČEZ’s Martin Roman was (allegedly) traced to offshore trusts getting payments from Škoda Plzeň, so too could be the elusive Inteprod Ltd., which got some Kč 135 mln via ProMoPro.

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