The document authorizing the raid cited “suspicion of bribery of elected officials.” Authorities sought documents from January 2020 “regarding communication of the accused Bystron with responsible persons of the internet platform ‘Voice of Europe,’” along with “monetary payments to the accused” related to “his voting behavior and speeches in the German Bundestag [Parliament].” “Through her reporting, she has exposed numerous wrongdoings in public and political life, for which she received the Journalism Award for journalists under the age of 33.” That award, which Pokorná received earlier this year long after the original reporting on the Voice of Europe story, comes from the Nadace Open Society Fund in Prague, which was formerly a member of the Open Society Foundations founded by Hungarian American billionaire George Soros. Ladislav Šticha, a spokesman for the Czech Security Information Service, said he cannot comment on the Voice of Europe case, but he can “confirm that VoE was a platform through which the European Parliament elections were to be influenced.” He also stated that the agency “has proven that there was influence from the Russian Federation in the VoE case.”
Author: Tyler O'Neil
Published at: 2025-07-23 22:30:00
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