Summary of newsmakers from the previous day – 12.12. 2005

Hungarians attached 70 tons of spoiled meat, it was also from CR

Hungarian police found out over 70 ton of poultry meat outdated in a store in Budapest quarter Csepel which should be offered repeatedly for sale in large hypermarkets. The police interned also several workers of Slovak firm who unloaded the meat and were going to pack it in new cover with new date of expiration. Hungarian police claim that no meat from that consignment got to shops. According to information of Hungarian medias, the meat came from Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland.

LF proposed suggestions for examination due to criticized land transfers

The executive committee of Land Fund appealed to the police and the District prosecution in Prague 3 with stimuli to examine due to a cause of transfers of lucrative land to subdealers. Michal Bureš, a spokesman of LF said that to the ČTK today. In context of pieces of knowledge from a check, a stimulus for examination was presented against a former member of the executive committee, Roman Skopal, for a suspicion of committing crime of infringement of duties in trusteeship and a crime of fraud. This stimulus was given to a unit for detection of corruption and financial criminality of the Police CR. “I do not know that information at all, so, I will not express myself to that”, said Skopal to the ČTK.

State has plan for re-overruling Setuza

The state has outlined its strategy thanks to which it wants to re-overrule a food company Setuza. The state lost a share in the biggest company a couple of weeks ago due to a secret contract which was closed by the ex-minister of agriculture Jaroslav Palas with people from Setuza year and half ago. According to information of the daily Aktuálně.cz, a new head of the resort Jan Mládek is going to buy out a share from Český olej which the firm obtained for “only” 100 million crowns by the help of controversial agreements with Palas in exchange for

not sending Setuza to bankruptcy immediately by the state.

Processors of sugar beet had very successful year

Sugar beet processors consider this year as extraordinarily successful. They relish not only above-average sugar content but also high yields exceeding sixty tons from a hectare. Most of sugar refineries finish slowly the campaign in these days. As the first in Olomouc region a campaign in Kojetín near Přerov ended. “In our other business in Němčice we will end today and we will process so called “heavy juice” till June. We are very satisfied with sugar beet quality; a content of sugar was closed to nineteen percents”, said an agronomical director of a company Eastern Sugar Jiří Kubíček.