15.08.2008 - Diag Human case arbitrators say Czech state threatened them
The arbitrators also said people who had no right to interfere in the proceedings dis so, and they named Health Minister Tomas Julinek among others.
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Czech press survey ... Human and must pay 8.33 billion crowns to it, it was announced on August 13.
Diag Human demanded 14 billion crowns in compensation for the state having allegedly destroyed its lucrative deals with blood plasma in the early 1990s.
The case was triggered by a letter that then health minister Martin Bojar wrote to the Danish company Novo Nordisk in 1992 after which the firm cut cooperation with Diag Human.
Both parties to the dispute can propose a review of the award within 30 days.
The arbitrators said the Czech police, the Chamber of Deputies commission of investigation and a Prague court took interest in the case file still before the proceedings were completed.
That is why the arbitrators relocated the file "to a safe place abroad," according to iHned.cz.
The arbitrators said the court "threatened (one arbitrator) with the removal of the arbitration file and with the imposing of a fine up to 50,000 crowns."
The arbitrators also complained against the state for alleged obstructions that delayed the proceedings.
(USD1=16.327 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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