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Czech PM loses appeal on past secret police ties

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Czech prime minister Andrej Babis will not be able to erase his ties to communist-era secret police following a Slovak court ruling on Tuesday. Babis was born in present-day Slovakia. In the 1980s, he had met with secret police (StB) officers in the former Czechoslovakia and has been suspected of being a collaborator out to enrich himself.

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