Fair enough: State managers know how to earn money. Director Ludvík in Motol showed a sense for bribery and work-life balance of the state nobility.
Men in black uniforms and masks patrol the hospital. The depressing spectacle is a reminder of what the hospital management has forgotten. People send a piece of their salaries to the hospital, so that in times of misfortune someone can help them. Miloslav Ludvík certainly knew this, he just forgot about it and was driven by the assumption that Motol is primarily a money washing machine, from which he pulls the fat chunks into his own wallet. After all, no blood flows from the era.
The trap closed over Miloslav Ludvík. After a quarter of a century in the role of director of one of the largest Czech hospitals, he was dismissed by the Minister of Health Vlastimil Válek (TOP 09). The reason is suspicion of corruption. He has been suspected of this in a way for some time now, having been involved in a whole range of other scandals, but so far, he has managed to slip through them like a pike among carp.
For example, the Motol director lives in a luxury villa not far from his workplace. He paid for the generous accommodation in cash. It's impossible not to remember the wine boxes of David Rath stuffed with bribe money. Ludvík did not explain where he got the money from, nor why he used cash payment. The transfer of banknotes is much harder to track than electronic financial transfers. Especially if you "tuck a stack of five-thousand notes under your belly button", as we learned in the currently ongoing case.
The salary in the public sector job does not count, Ludvík took notice even in the cafeteria
For some state employees, it holds true that they work in professions where they do not earn much, but they can pursue a field for which there is no place in the commercial sphere. As per the general economic rules, private sector workers must adapt to commercial reality, but at the same time, expect better earnings.
This, however, does not apply to the state nobility. Miloslav Ludvík managed to earn millions by pointing his finger towards subsidy pipelines. His latest action, when he latched on to European money from the National Recovery Fund, currently resulted in his stay in custody. The corruption scheme, within which he was supposed to benefit by a few million, however, threatens the income of billions from the EU within the entire subsidy. For these, the taxpayer will have to contribute.
"Of course, I don't know what the director Ludvík was doing in the Motol Hospital. But I think that when someone runs a large public institution for twenty-five years, it is not easy for them not to consider bribes as an integral part of management,"
commented on Ludvík's rule in Motol, commentator Petr Honzejk on X.
He thus points out a certain perversion of thought of Ludvík, for whom his salary, which certainly easily exceeded several times the average wage in the Czech Republic, was certainly not sufficient reward for his reign of a huge hospital. During a long time in office, he got the feeling that the hospital belongs to him and then applied his corruption scheme across the entire institution. The fee of the operator of the hospital buffet directly into his pocket is the perfect proof of this.
His journeys to Benin in Africa, which compromised him as far back as 2011 when he spent time here during major medical strikes, or his method of serving VIP clientele, notably the so-called aristocrats, rather effectively cast him in the role of a gangster and his behavior is now rightly criminalized.
It took a long time, but it happened, which is a good testimony for our society and we can be glad that the masked men are intervening against such power mongers. Fortunately, Ludvík didn't get away in his private plane in whose cockpit he liked to show off.
State employees in leading positions are nobility for whom economic tips do not apply
But another recent case of collecting "notice" from recent times shows that immoral enrichment at the expense of public resources can be done in broad daylight. Of course, this is about the million rewards of the UK rector Milena Králíčková for herself and her closest associates.
The head of the university awarded herself bonuses that moved her salary above that of the Prime Minister (the highest "manager" of the state). The argumentation of the exceptional situation around the rampaging shooter is then pure hyenaism, which easily surpassed the cap of the Liberec rector's arms industry on the heel of this tragedy.
However, if it weren't for the connection to the unprecedented shooting, the information about the hefty bonuses poured from public money into one's own pocket would have been obscured. This has revealed that managers of public institutions grant bonuses frequently, not just at the Prague university or one hospital there.
While ordinary employees of these institutions regularly strike for higher wages, pointing to the never-ending underfunding of Czech healthcare or Czech science, their bosses are attached to a fat money pipeline from which money from all taxpayers disappears into their pockets with incredible ease. A nobility has emerged here, for whom simple economic rules simply do not apply.
Sources: author's text, commentary, idnes.cz, seznamzpravy.cz, x.com, aktualne.cz
