Office for the Protection of Competition receives anonymous tip-off regarding purchase of army planes

The Office for the Protection of Competition in June received a second anonymous tip-off to investigate the Czech army’s purchase of Spanish-made transport planes of the CASA type, the website euro.cz reported on Wednesday. According to the tip-off, the ministry bought those planes without announcing a bid for a proper public tender, thus breaking the law of economic competition. The tip-off was also given to the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior and Transparency International.