Juska presented himself in the media two years ago as the financial director of the Czech company symple Day, which developed an application for searching for craftsmen. Its founder was Lukáš Černý, a former hairdresser. The company had the ambition to become similar to Tinder in the field of services. But business is apparently not going as it should.
In fact, Juska has already had a number of debts since 2016, which gradually piled up. Today, he is facing eleven executions, a proposal for insolvency, and the executors are demanding a total of 2.3 million from him.
Not even Černý is without debts. He has five executions. The first was issued to him in 2019 and today he owes a total of 780,000. According to the latest financial statements for 2024, the company is also in the red and the application is still not functional.
“He had documents and keys for everything”
“Last April, an acquaintance of mine told me that a person appeared, Pavel Juska, who has some city apartments on offer that can be privatized. If you want, contact him,” began his story, a man who spoke to the editors after Fairpress published a series of articles about scams with city apartments. Back then, the main character was the former footballer Adam Petrouš.
The editors know his name, but for the sake of protecting the source, they will not mention it. However, according to his words, the man is willing to tell the police everything.
He described for Fairpress how he was interested in the offer because of a possible profitable investment. “He liked to present himself as having ties to the municipality,” he pointed out towards Jusko. He took him on a tour of the 2+1 apartment in Anenská street. The apartment actually belongs to the municipality, which entrusted it to Prague 1. The apartment was being renovated at the time.
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Pavel Juska during a tour of one of the apartments he was offering.
“He had the background and all the documents for everything. It looked credible and I quickly agreed. Then he took me to about five more apartments, all of which were empty,” continued the witness.
These should also be municipal and prepared for privatization. One of them was supposed to be near the Old Town Square, another perhaps in Prague 3. However, according to the real estate cadastre, this one belonged to a private owner, not the municipality.
Forged city hall letter
An apartment in Anenská was leased from Prague 1 in 2024 by a woman with the initials SB. The contract had to be approved by the Council of Prague 1. The woman undertook to repair the vacated apartment without social amenities, for which she had a reduced rent for a certain period.
Juska told the interested party that everything was prearranged with the woman, she is said to be his person. It’s enough if he proceeds with the lease, and the woman then checks out. The apartment would thus remain with the new tenant. “Only we would stay there, and supposedly within a year and a half, the city would send an offer for purchase,” said the man.
In order to add weight to his words, Juska presented him not only with the woman’s actual valid rental agreement, but also with an alleged addendum dated April 2024.
In it, an official from Prague 1 talks about the fact that the unit will be offered to an existing tenant as part of the plan to privatize the remaining housing stock. But as the editors found out, this document is a forgery.
City Hall: No privatization is underway
The spokeswoman for Prague 1, Karolína Šnejdarová, confirmed to the editors that currently the town hall does not offer apartments under its management for sale, nor is their privatization underway. “Any information about the future transfer of rent connected with the subsequent privatization is therefore false,” she emphasized.
In the same way, according to her, it is not possible for the district to allow the transfer of the lease of a municipal apartment to third parties on the basis of private agreements. The council decides on each such request and approves it only if it is a long-term and properly functioning tenancy relationship.
“These are situations worthy of special attention, for example when the original tenant gets married and starts a family within the city district, or in the case of a serious illness, when a close family member joins the lease agreement as a caregiver. However, in a significant part of the applications, the justification is evaluated as insufficient and the Council will not give permission for another person to join the lease,” she explained.
