Minister of Finance and ANO leader Andrej Babiš is taking part in a special session of the lower house of parliament on Wednesday called to explain the circumstance surrounding his Stork’s Nest farm and conference centre. Babiš has been under the spotlight for more than a week over allegations that the project received 50 million crowns in European funds that should have been destined for small and medium sized firms. At one stage the project was owned by Babiš’ massive agro-chemical group Agrofert but the ownership later changed. The ANO leader described the affair as a manipulated campaign against him. He said Agrofert paid Czech tax and received back a sixth of the funds back it paid in tax. He added that he had given his charity foundation 50 million crowns in extra funding. Babis finally declared that the farm at the time of the EU grants was owned by his grown up daughters and the brother of his partner, Monika.