Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:54:46 +0200https://english.radio.cz/state-sheds-light-secrets-involving-settlements-over-rescued-bank-ipb-8567113© 2026 Radio Prague International It was the biggest bank rescue in modern Czech history when the state rushed to take over the country’s fourth biggest bank, IPB, as queues formed to withdraw cash and a total collapse of the banking system threatened in 2000. In the aftermath, a decade long legal battle with tens of billions of crowns at stake broke out between the state, the bank’s former owners and new bank management. Now the state has lifted the lid on some of the secrets relating to those battles and how it fought them. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/ipb_csob_nomura.jpg?timestamp=1591467296 https://english.radio.cz/state-sheds-light-secrets-involving-settlements-over-rescued-bank-ipb-8567113 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9