Defense Minister specifies anti-corruption measures

Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra has said he is planning to remove the head of the ministry’s acquisitions division Roman Hošta from his post by the end of this week. Mr Vondra told journalists on Monday that under Mr Hošta, contracts for public tenders to renovate army real estate had been signed that he finds suspicious and excessively expensive. He added that the ministry was also to undergo a rigorous audit by a respected international agency in an effort to uncover corruption. In recent days, the Czech daily Mladá fronta dnes alleged that the Prague firm H+V Praha had earned millions of crowns off the public tenders it received from the Ministry of Defense.