Billionaire Czech Premier Faces Ouster Bid After Son’s Abduction Claim
- Czech leader’s son is central figure in EU funds fraud probe
- Babis Sr. says there was no abduction, cites mental illness
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The Czech Republic’s billionaire prime minister will face an ouster motion over a fraud investigation that took a new twist when his son claimed he’d been abducted to Crimea as his father tried to hide him from the probe.
Opposition parties called for a no-confidence vote against Premier Andrej Babis’s cabinet after the Seznam.cz website showed a video of his son saying people working for his father had lured him to Crimea and held him there against his will. Andrej Babis Jr. is a central figure in an investigation into the alleged misuse of European Union funds at a recreation center that once belonged to Babis, who rejects the case as a fabrication by his rivals.