Andrej Babiš
Andrej Babiš ( born September 2, 1954 in Bratislava) is a living in the Czech Republic entrepreneurs, owners of the holding company Agrofert and politician of Slovak origin. He is, according to the news magazine Týden with 4 to 5 billion euros of the richest citizens of the country and founder and chairman of the party ANO 2011. Since January 29, 2014 he is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic in the Cabinet Bohuslav Sobotka.
Life
His father Štefan Babiš worked in the Czechoslovak foreign trade and diplomat, why Babiš spent part of his childhood in Paris and Geneva. After graduating from high school in 1974 in Geneva Andrej Babiš studied until 1978 at the Faculty of Commerce University of Economics Bratislava and then worked for the Chemapol Bratislava. In 1978 he became a candidate in 1980 and member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSC ). 1985 Babiš was sent to the foreign trade company Petrimex to Morocco, from where he returned after the Velvet Revolution in 1991 to Prague.
The Slovak counterpart to Gauck, the Ústav pamäti národa accused Babiš later collaboration with the Czechoslovak State Security under the code name " Bures ". Babiš rejects the charges, however, back and sued the Institute in 2013. To process but neither he nor his witnesses appeared. He was then postponed to January 2014. His deliberate Communist Party of Czechoslovakia membership he denies he was done without his knowledge and would in Slovakia effort a process to determine this also.
Babiš is married for the second time and has two children from his first and second marriages.
Entrepreneur
Shortly after his return from Morocco and resolution of the Federative Republic Czechoslovakia Petrimex established under the Foreign Ministry State Secretary Anton Rakický and Babiš with loans from the U.S. Citibank the holding company Agrofert, whose director was Babiš 1993. According to the daily newspaper claiming Babis that they were old friends from Swiss times that went with an obscure letter-box entity and East Financial Investment AG ( OFI ) 1995 Agrofert and he took over the company so. Under his leadership, Agrofert quickly developed into one of the leading companies in the Czech agricultural, chemical and food industries and expanded massively abroad. 2011 had Agrofert over 230 subsidiaries and is now the fourth largest group in the Czech Republic.
Since 2006 Agrofert is the sole owner of the German agrochemical company SKW Piesteritz. Early 2013 took over Agrofert the German bakery Lieken AG, Golden Toast and Lieken Urkorn Barilla.
A subsidiary of Batis ' Agrofert, the AGF Media as took over the end of June 2013, the media company Mafra by the Rheinische Post, which publishes, among other things, the Czech dailies Mladá fronta Dnes, Lidové noviny and the free Metro newspaper and is involved in Internet portals, private television and print. The sale was approved in August and approved shortly before the election in October 2013 by the Czech Cartel.
Politician
In November 2011 Babiš founded the party ANO 2011 ( Engl. Yes and also the acronym for action dissatisfied citizens) who was at the early parliamentary elections in 2013 with 18.65 percent of the second-strongest force in parliament. Babiš appeared as the leading candidate of his party in the city of Prague.