Allegations have been published that public tender for the privatisation of North Bohemian coal mines may have been fixed and as a result of corruption, the deal was given to the Appian Group, a company associated with one Antonín Koláček.

Some Czech journalists are worried that no one actually knows who owns the Appian Group and how it managed to clinch the deal. The problem seems to be that the media on the whole provide only superficial, often slanted, information. No wonder - the Czech News Agency, a public service news outlet on whose output many Czech media rely heavily, has, through its subsidiary, the company called "Newton Information Technology, s.r.o." ties with firms which are close to Antonín Koláček.

The whole article is available in Czech HERE