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Now you know a little more about Mister K's close guard. Also know that the Belgian resident is above all a good connoisseur of the energy market in Central and Eastern Europe. An essential asset.


It all started with a pipeline that carries Russian overseas chinese in canada data gas to Europe. A windfall. Then came the acquisitions of many particularly polluting coal-fired power plants. Particularly profitable acquisitions and of course ardently decried by climate defenders, which is not really Mister K's primary characteristic. However, he also believes in the virtues of biomass. Producing electricity with wood chips. "He embodies the hesitations of an era," says the author. And the latter recounts Kretinsky's irresistible rise.

Sometimes very close, competing and/or complicit relationships with politicians, the very great wealth of his country. The father of his partner Ana, is Petr Kellner, the biggest billionaire of the Czech Republic. His investment fund bore the modest name of "Peter the Great" With D. Kretinsky, it is a couple of distrust and rivalry, points out the author.

On several occasions, the European Commission inspectors have been interested in the activities of Mister K. Suspicions of collusion, abuse of a dominant position. The anti-corruption services of the Czech police also in 2012, but the investigation was closed in 2015. Suspicions of financing of political parties too… Scandals have not been lacking, including the one known as the “Tuscan villa” recounted in the book.