A case in which police are investigating a second time whether the son of former prime minister Andrej Babi Jr. accidentally brought to the Crimea in 2017 is most likely finally over.

Prague police officers postponed the case before the end of last year. Lawyer Vítězslav Dohnal, who represents Babiš jnójri, filed a complaint against this, but it has not been enforced.

“Today I received a resolution from the District Prosecutor’s Office for Prague 1, according to which my complaint was rejected,” Dohnal told Seznam Zprávy.

The information was later confirmed by a spokesman for the Prague lawsuit, Aleš Cimbala. “Regarding the victim’s complaint, the decision was reviewed by the Prague 1 Public Prosecutor’s Office, who did not find any violations in the police authority’s procedures and rejected the victim’s complaint as baseless,” said Cimbala.

According to him, the public prosecutor handled the complaint of lawyer Babiš jnójri in great detail.

“Currently, the case file contains sufficient evidence to make a decision on this matter without hesitation. “The case is postponed because it is still in the process of being investigated, which is the initial stage of the preliminary process,” added Cimbala.

Seznam News reported a few days ago that the police postponed the case because the son of the former Czech prime minister did not undergo a medical examination by an expert, as investigators wanted.

In recent years, Babiš Jr. has been treated for a long-term mental disorder. When he went to testify in this case to the police, he gave him two medical reports that he was in good health.

The outpatient report from the field of psychiatry, which was presented to investigators, was prepared by doctor Džamila Stehlíková. The second assessment was prepared by Slavomil Fischer, an expert and head of the Department of Pedagogy and Applied Disciplines at the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in stí nad Labem.

However, the investigator requested that the health condition of the crown witness be verified by an expert. However, Andrej Babi Jr. did not accept the review. Therefore, the police postponed the case. And the decision to postpone the case has now also been confirmed by the prosecutor’s office.

Against the prosecutor’s decision, it is still possible to file a motion to review the procedure in this case. “But I don’t know yet if we will propose,” added Dohnal. If they do eventually file it, the Prague City State Prosecutor’s Office will handle the case.

Police first became aware of suspicions that Babi Jr. was in Crimea by accident in 2017, when a message signed by Andrej Babi Jr. arrived in the email box of the Czech Criminal Investigation Institute: “I was kidnapped to the Crimea. I am now in Ukraine with my girlfriend. An accidental psychiatric procedure awaits me,” he wrote in it.

However, the first real investigations did not begin until the fall of 2018, when Babi junior told journalist Seznam Zpráv in Geneva that he was in Crimea by accident and that Petr Protopopov had taken him there on his father’s instructions. However, Andrej Babi senior, Protopopov and the mother of Babi junior rejected the version of forced stay, so the police postponed the case for the first time last January.

He opened it again – for the second time – after Babiš Jr. began to openly describe his Crimean story again in the spring.

Andrej Babiš jnójri is also a witness in the case, which concerns the alleged subsidy fraud around Farma apí hnízdo and in which his father is accused. Also in this case last September, Babi junior gave a statement to the police. However, the case’s supervising prosecutor, Jaroslav aroch, will decide whether Babi junior can be trusted by the police in this matter and whether his testimony will be considered.

We have completed the statement of the Prague prosecutor.