Русская версияIn addition, this is not the final sum which is expected to be even higher, it says.
The Czech Republic recently lost its dispute with the company in the arbitration.
It is to pay about nine billion crowns in compensation to the company trading in blood plasma.
Diag Human complained that the Czech Republic harmed its good name and marred its deals with blood plasma.
According to the arbitration verdict, the Czech Republic must pay 8.33 billion crowns to Diag Human as compensation as of July 2007. Since then the sum has been increasing by another interest of about 1.3 million a day, so the final sum is approaching nine billion crowns.
HN has asked the Health Ministry to provide it with a list of its expenses on legal analyses that the ministry has ordered to make.
However, according to the daily, the ministry has not included certain well known expenses in the 30-million-crown sum. The list lacks, for instance, any information on the bonuses paid to the Deloitte company that is still providing consulting services to the government.
Fortunately, at least some money could return to state coffers, the daily writes.
Lawyer Zdenek Novacek is to pay the state almost eight million crowns, according to the arbitration verdict that has not yet taken effect, the paper says.
Former health minister Marie Souckova illegally paid Novacek ten million crowns as remuneration for his services. She now faces a trial.
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. Diag Human then demanded a high compensation for the state having allegedly prevented its lucrative deals with blood plasma in the early 1990s.
Then health minister Jan Strasky (ODS) decided to submit the case to the arbitration proceedings in 1996.
In 1998 an arbitration panel recognised Diag Human's claim for compensation by the Czech Republic and a public apology. Since then the dispute has only been over the level of compensation.
The government of Vladimir Spidla (Social Democrats, CSSD) paid 326.6 million crowns in compensation to Diag Human in 2002. The company then calculated new damage.
($1=16.455 Czech crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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