The state should compensate Diag Human for thwarting its planned trading in blood plasma in the early 1990s. The judge, Zdenek Rusek, is among 37 people who have been accused of corruption at the ministry, based on favouritism and on the placing of orders at friendly firms by ministry officials. "I've been accused of having supervised the choice of the Com Tip company as the recipient of orders.
They [investigators] ignore the fact that the recipients were chosen by lot drawing and that I found myself far away at the time," said Rusek. Rusek is one of the three Diag Human case arbitrators say Czech state threatened them ...
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AI says world leaders failing in human rights ... arbitrators in the Diag Human case. It was the state that entrusted the task to him in 1997. When Rusek worked at the Defence Ministry, the Com Tip company won tenders for the reconstruction of military barracks and now it is Rusek's client, according to MfD. Rusek worked at the ministry for about 25 years. From 1993 to 1997, when he left the ministry, he headed the minister's inspection that supervised the fight against corruption. At the time, one of the deputy defence ministers was Miroslav Kalousek (Christian Democrats, KDU-CSL) who is now finance minister. Kalousek recently said if the government discussed whether to have the Diag Human arbitration verdict reviewed, he would side with Health Minister Tomas Julinek (Civic Democrats, ODS), who wants the review to be sought. The Czech arbitration court which associates arbitrators, has not commented on Rusek's case. According to MfD, from the legal viewpoint nothing prevents important cases from being handled by a judge who faces accusations of crime. ($1=16.673 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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