Andrej Babiš, nicknamed the "Czech Donald Trump", is
second time Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (2017 and 2025), an
agriculture, chemistry and fertilizers tycoon, owner of the
most popular radio station, but also newspaper, TV station
and several fertility clinics. At $4.6B, he is currently ranked
#616 (#1045 in 2025) in the Forbes worldwide, and in fourth place in the
Czech Republic. The largest demonstrations in 2019, with
over 250,000 people, since the Velvet Revolution, took place
in response to a misuse of EU Funds for his private farm and
his ongoing connection to agro-chemical business.
The project attempts to visualize the key events, dating back
to 1970s-80s when he worked as a delegate of several
state-owned companies in Morocco (negotiating cheap
phosphates purchase), through 1990s and 2000s when he
gradually built his conglomerate Agrofert until the fall of the
government of Petr Nečas, which started the “Era of Andrej
Babiš”.
While not being a traditional mafioso, his practices had
always been in the shade of a grey zone, including contract
traps, intrigues and influence on politicians, police and
intelligence agents. Eventually he built an empire of over
250 companies (including German ones such as Lieken AG
and SKW Piesteritz, the largest producer of urea and
ammonia in Germany) and monopolized not just the
fertilizers market chain but everything related to agriculture
(engineering, food companies, biofuel). He owns more than
50% share of the bread products market of the Czech
republic. His rapeseed fields will ‘light up’ the whole Czech
Republic in the summer.

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