Zdeněk Bakala (born 7 February 1961) is a Czech entrepreneur and investor. He is a stakeholder in mining, energy, financial businesses and owns the media company Economia, the publisher of '' Hospodářské noviny'' and ''

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'' magazine among others. As of 2017, Bakala is the tenth wealthiest person in the

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according to ''

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''. His philanthropic activities are directed via the

Bakala Foundation The Bakala Foundation is a family foundation established by Zdeněk Bakala and Michaela Bakala. It was founded in the Czech Republic in 2007 originally as Zdeněk Bakala Foundation (in Czech "''Nadace Zdeňka Bakaly"'') and it was renamed to The B ...

. In September 2018, Bakala found a lawsuit in federal court in Beaufort, South Carolina in which he claims that a controversional Slovak businessman Pavol Krúpa has initiated frivolous lawsuits, promoted death threats on Facebook and instigated criminal investigations targeting him. The lawsuit also says that Krupa threatened to send soccer hooligans to protest in front of Bakala's home in Switzerland and ultimately demanded a payment of 500 million Czech koruna (US$23 million) in 2017, as a compensation for losses suffered by buying Bakala's New World Resources stock, to stop. According to the complaint, when Bakala rejected that offer, Krupa hired Beverly Hills, California-based Crowds on Demand “to bring his campaign of defamation, extortion, and harassment to the U.S.” Pavol Krúpa

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