Dagmar Havlová offered a majority stake in Prague’s Palac Lucerna for nearly a billion crowns to the BTL group. President Václav Havel’s brother-in-law retained a 25 % share. This was reported in the present day by the Forbes server primarily based on the statements of Havelová and BTL technical director Tomáš Drbal. In line with Havelová, the cash from the sale will probably be used for the reconstruction of the constructing, which has been a nationwide cultural monument since 2017.
In line with Forbes, the present sole proprietor of Lucerna invested Lucerna within the newly created firm Palác PL. The corporate BTL Healthcare Applied sciences now owns 75 % of it, and Dagmar Havlová, Ivan Havel’s widow, holds the remaining.
The lantern was constructed by Vácslav Havel, the grandfather of the later president Václav Havel and his brother Ivan. After 1948 it was nationalized, in 1992 the palace was returned to Václav and Ivan Havel in restitution. Disputes adopted, after which the courts determined that the complete constructing belonged to Ivan Havel’s spouse, Dagmar Havel.
