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  • A European Parliament mission probing an alleged conflict of interest of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said Friday its members had been targeted with insults and even death threats. A billionaire-businessman turned politician, populist Babis faces police charges over alleged EU subsidy fraud as well as a probe by the European Commission into his dual role as a politician and entrepreneur. The five-member fact-finding mission from the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) spent two days meeting Czech officials as part of the probe. "We repeatedly faced different threats," MEP and mission member Tomas Zdechovsky told reporters in Prague, adding he had received death threats from "extremists" over the mission, without elaborating. "I'm very concerned about the situation," said German MEP Monika Hohlmeier, who heads the committee, adding that the Czech Republic lacked "a clear, responsible system... to identify conflicts of interest." "We got the impression that this system to detect, to avoid, prevent is not really working. We have a lot of doubts," she added. Speaking elsewhere in Prague at the same time on Friday, Babis said Zdechovsky and fellow CONT member, Czech MEP Mikulas Peksa, were "traitors and informers". Babis flatly denies any wrongdoing, saying he had transferred his Agrofert food, chemicals and media group to a fund to avoid conflict of interest in line with Czech law. But ownership registers prove he and his family still rake in profits from the business. Babis, who refused to meet the mission, also condemned Germany's Hohlmeier as being "a bit deranged", adding that "she doesn't have a clue about how (EU) subsidies work". Babis, a former communist who is also listed as a communist secret police agent during the 1980s, leads a minority centre-left coalition government comprising his populist ANO (YES) movement and the leftwing Social Democrats. It relies on the informal support of the far-left Communist party to survive in parliament. frj/mas/har
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  • Insults, death threats as MEPs probe Czech PM
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