Václav Junek (born June 17, 1951) is a Czech businessman. Junek was a chairman of bankrupt conglomerate Chemapol Group. Junek's company Chemapol Reality (C.H.R.) purchased from

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then ...

his 50 percent stake in a legendary dance-hall Lucerna Palace on

Wenceslas Square Wenceslas Square ( Czech: , colloquially ''Václavák'' ) is one of the main city squares and the centre of the business and cultural communities in the New Town of Prague, Czech Republic. Many historical events occurred there, and it is a tra ...

for CZK 200 mio. It sold it two years later to Dagmar Havlová for CZK 145 mio. Later, the company went bankrupt. In 1999, Junek publicly admitted Chemapol bribed the politicians of

Czech Social Democratic Party The Czech Social Democratic Party ( cs, Česká strana sociálně demokratická, ČSSD, ) is a social-democratic political party in the Czech Republic. Sitting on the centre-left of the political spectrum and holding pro-European views, it is a ...

(ČSSD). The ruling ČSSD politicians secretly used gas cards issued to the name of Chemapol to get gas for free.

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