Current Affairs Corruption concerns over huge biggest ever environmental tender

18-05-2009 17:09 | Jan Richter

The interim Czech government is pushing ahead with a tender for the biggest environmental clean-up operation in the country’s history – removing environmental damage inflicted during decades of communist rule. The tender is worth 115 billion crowns and cabinet officials say it is an effective way of dealing with a burden the state had promised to remove. But experts as well as anti-corruption organizations are concerned that the state could end up paying much more than necessary.

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