Police investigating OpenCard project

The police has launched an investigation into Prague City Hall’s controversial OpenCard project. The multipurpose OpenCard was launched last year to replace city transport passes as well as library, museum and other types of service cards. However the project has not met the intended goal and, at a cost of over 800 million crowns, has come under attack for being grossly overpriced. Three independent audits have already been conducted, each concluding that the project was badly conceived and reporting untraceable invoices and a lack of transparency in commissioning. Critics say the main tender was tailored to the company Haguess and lots of other companies were commissioned to do work that was not essentially necessary.