There are new charges in the case of tennis subsidies, according to the police, the damage is 52 million – Sport.cz

“This is new information that did not surprise us after the first weeks in the management of ČTS, considering the state in which we took over the association in June,” said iSport.cz the chairman of the association tennis player, Jakub Kotrba, who was elected to the position this summer at a special general meeting. The hairdresser resigned the day before.

In addition to Kaderka, who led the union for 26 years, former member of the union’s board of directors Vojtěch Flégl, former head of the financial department Hana Baierová, former secretary of the union Jakub Fastr and the coach tennis Daniel Vacek, who trains representative Tomáš Macháč, accused. In total, between six and eight companies were involved in fraud between 2017 and 2023, according to the police. The names of the newly accused have not been released.

“The newly accused legal entity is not the Czech Tennis Association, and the employee and partners of the association are not physical persons,” Kotrba said. “According to previous statements, ČTS will ‘ to join the criminal proceedings as a victim with the aim of recovering the damage done after the final calculation, “he said.

With the exception of one accused natural person, they all face up to ten years in prison for subsidy fraud and causing significant damage. What is new in the case is that the criminal activity was supposed to have taken place even before the establishment of the National Sports Group, which was established in 2019. Before that, according to the police, the association was ‘financial handling from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

According to information first reported by Radiožurnál, the tennis association paid the amounts from the state subsidy to the association Flégl Orel jednota Praha-Balkán. Part of the money for organizing competitions reportedly ended up in the accounts of Flégl’s companies or companies of his family members. The essence of the mechanization was that Flégl and the companies controlled by him or his close associates were paid hundreds of thousands to millions of crowns for services of great value or completely tactical.

Kaderka and Flégl were detained for three months after the case started and later resigned. Both are being investigated in general, denying criminal activity.