Agrofert, the company founded by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who has since placed it in trust funds, originally issued a lawsuit against Czech Television, stating that the station’s reports, broadcast as part of the Reportéři ČT program last year, had damaged the company’s reputation.
However, the judge ruled that many members of the public had already noted before that Babiš was the owner of Agrofert at the time that he was finance minister and therefore that it was fair for the reporters to make such a connection, Czech Radio reported on September 16.
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