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By Albin Sybera in Prague Slovakia’s Ministry of Interior has ended a long-standing dispute with Czech populist ex-prime minister and current opposition leader Andrej Babis over his communist-era records as a collaborator of Czechoslovakia’s feared internal secret service StB. As part of the settlement, the ministry acknowledged that Babis did not knowingly cooperate with StB, while the billionaire and Slovak native Babis won’t seek any financial compensation. The dispute dates back to 2012, when Babis sued Slovakia’s Nation’s Memory Institute (UPN), insisting that he had not collaborated with…

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