METRO Rail Transit (MRT) General Manager Al Vitangcol on Wednesday said he will file charges against Czech Ambassador to the Philippines Josef Rychtar for linking him to a $30-million extort try on a Czech company interested in supplying additional train coaches for the MRT.

Vitangcol added that his lawyers are studying possible charges against Rychtar whom he claimed has spread false testimony after the Czech diplomat accused him of sending an emissary to extort $30 million from Czech train car builder Inekon Group in exchange for the awarding of the expansion project. The 48-train project was eventually awarded to CNR Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. of China.

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