Libor Michálek
| Libor Michálek | |
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| Senator from Prague 2 | |
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Assumed office 20 October 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Daniela Filipiová |
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| Born | 1968 (age 48–49) Náchod, Czechoslovakia |
| Nationality | Czech |
| Political party | Pirate, Green, Christian Democrat |
| Children | three |
| Alma mater | Palacký University of Olomouc, Masaryk University, Nottingham Trent University (MPA) |
| Occupation | Financial analyst |
| Religion | Evangelical Christian |
| Website | http://www.libormichalek.cz |
Mgr. Libor Michálek, MPA (born 1968) is a Czech economist, politician, and whistleblower. He led successful corruption cases against the Czech National Property Fund and the Environment Ministry as former employees of both. He is the first Pirate Party candidate to be elected to office in a national legislature. His senatorial term is 2012–2018.
Michálek was born in Náchod in 1968. He graduated from high school in Přerov in 1987, and from Palacký University of Olomouc in 1992. He later studied in Masaryk University's management program, and received his MPA from Nottingham Trent University's executive program in 2010. After college, he worked as a UNIX programmer, business school teacher, and portfolio manager at an investment company. Michálek was a broker at the National Property Fund from 1994 to 1996, when he was fired after exposing a tunneling embezzlement scheme. The resulting court case found that he was improperly dismissed. He was later involved in compensating victims of financial crime. Michálek served as a capital market supervisor at the Czech Ministry of Finance from 1997 to 1998, a director at the Czech Securities Commission from 1998 to 2006, a director at the Czech National Bank from 2006 to 2007, a senior consultant at the World Bank in 2007, and the chief financial market inspector at the Czech National Bank from 2008 to 2010.
In August 2010, he became the director of the Czech State Environmental Fund. On December 13, 2010, Michálek filed a criminal complaint of corruption against the Environment Ministry in its tender for reconstruction of a Prague water treatment plant. He claimed the project was overpriced by 3,000,000,000 Kč Kč. Based on a secretly audiotaped conversation, Michálek also alleged that Martin Knetig, an advisor to environmental minister Pavel Drobil, asked him to manipulate the tender to fund his party (the Civic Democrats) and Drobil's political career. Michálek recorded his subsequent conversation with Drobil, who allegedly offered his deputy position for the destruction of the tapes. Upon the story's publication, Drobil fired Michálek and Knetig, denied any wrongdoing, and resigned a day later.
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