The Regional Court in Brno was fined due to the judicial palace

Brno - The Brno regional court violated the public procurement law during the construction of the judicial palace and was fined 200,000 crowns for it. This was decided by the Office for the Protection of Competition (ÚOHS). Miroslava Sedláčková, spokesperson for the Brno Regional Court, confirmed this to ČTK today. The court disagrees with the verdict and plans to file a complaint with the head of ÚOHS.
    Sedláčková told ČTK that the court received the first-instance decision last week. Before that, the office's spokesperson Kristián Chalupa stated that ÚOHS is still conducting the administrative procedure and does not know when it will conclude.
    ÚOHS had already examined a significantly smaller tender for furniture in relation to the controversial construction costing two billion crowns. It also found errors in it and ordered it to be canceled.
    The financing of the palace, which is the largest construction investment of the justice system in the region, was also of interest to the police. The Supreme Audit Office had previously pointed out mistakes as well. Minister of Justice Jiří Pospíšil filed a disciplinary complaint against the head of the Brno Regional Court, Jaromír Pořízek, last year due to the financing of the construction. This was mainly because the court did not finalize the annex to the original contract with the construction company and also exceeded the specified budget. He was unsuccessful with it.
    The building was originally supposed to cost about 800 million crowns. The ministry gradually increased the budget to 1.8 billion crowns. Due to construction works, however, the court also exceeded this amount by about 60 million crowns.