Koudelka's energy bomb

Petr Fiala boasted on Mon. in London that before he met with UK PM Keir Starmer, he had the opportunity to visit MI6 and thereby added the British service to a portfolio that already included his visits to the CIA and Mossad. Fiala didn't mention BIS counterintelligence, which he visited with great fanfare on Oct. 17, 2022, and helped to launch the annual report for the previous year. The BIS report for last year was released a week ago and has come under more scrutiny than usual, mainly because of suspicions by the opposition that BIS will somehow be involved in "stealing" this year's elections. This discussion has overshadowed the biggest revelation of the 2024 BIS report, which doesn't relate to Russia, China or even Iran. BIS writes on P. 29 that Czech energy companies advanced their interests through "secret mutual coordination" and "obtained internal information from within national institutions." In other words, they colluded and had insider information, with substantial potential impact on public finances. Fiala and others responsible for energy security might wonder why Koudelka dropped this bomb 12 weeks before the elections.