The bank threatens us with insolvency, admits deputy mayor Sokol | iRADIO

What atmosphere accompanied yesterday’s meeting? To what extent did it focus on the mentioned case?
We talked about the case in two points. And that was when brother Martin Chlumský, at that time still the first deputy mayor, gave a report on what had happened during the past period at the beginning of the meeting.

“I don’t remember in history that there was such a problem in the Czech municipality of Sokolská,” says newly elected first deputy mayor Miroslav Kroc

And it was the mayor’s brother who was telling the new facts that had been discovered. Because we are still discovering more and more connections in what happened to the Czech community of Sokolská.

What were the basic conclusions from Saturday’s hearing regarding the possible multi-million dollar loan fraud?
We only got access to the documents a week ago. The first principle is that the Czech municipality of Sokolská never approved any loan at all, because we didn’t even need any loan.

On the contrary, we saved last years so that we could have a Christmas party. We didn’t need a loan.

And at the turn of January and February, we learn that we have open loans worth 32 million crowns, plus installments and other things that add up.

In the first weeks, we first got to know it, before we even had access to the bank, where we could look at the loans.

We only got to that last week. The first deputy mayor Chlumský got to do it.

We found out there that the documents were signed electronically by the former mayor and the former executive. We will have to deal with such things as part of the care of a good householder. And if we currently have to pay these loans.

But we go to them (for loans, editor’s note) we do not report because the Czech community of Sokolská did not want them.

On the other hand, the bank has some processes, we are threatened with insolvency and so on.

That’s all logical. When the digital signatures of the ex-mayor and ex-executive were used on the loans using their bank identity, you want and, as I understand it, even have to file a civil suit and recover damages. But isn’t it more of a symbolic step considering the amount the organization lost?
It is not a symbolic step. Because we continue to negotiate with the bank and review documents whose contents we have known for a week…

Sorry, I meant if you had any hope of actually getting some proportional amount out of the two.
Perhaps the return income could come from different sources. It’s one thing if we don’t find some documents that prove that it is not for the Czech municipality of Sokolská, as it is signed there.

The second thing is that the police found a significant amount of cash that was definitely not ours because we didn’t borrow any money. So let the cash go back to the bank and it would be satisfied and…

Excuse me, does this experience lead to a tightening of control mechanisms? What key lesson for the municipality of Sokol follows from this case?
I don’t remember that there was ever such a problem in the Czech village of Sokolská. The case is huge. Even if it was one million, we would have to be ashamed and sorry for it. Of course, we will find out all this even more now.

Those loans were created at the end of 2023 and nobody saw into them. If the police hadn’t pointed us to it, we wouldn’t even know about it.

What do you see as the main task for the new leadership until the next congress? Now is it mainly preparation for this year’s all-school gathering?
Sure, it’s in a few weeks and we’re all set. We have to finish this huge event that we do once every six years.

New members were elected to the board. We have to show the organization and everyone to ourselves that we can do it, that we can cope with it and that we will continue to work.

Vladimir Kroc

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