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  The former Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, has been acquitted of charges of subsidy fraud just four days before a presidential election in which he is standing as a candidate.
  The verdict, handed down in Prague's municipal court, amounts to a major vindication for Babiš - a billionaire tycoon and one of the Czech Republic's richest men - and may boost his chances of prevailing in next weekend's poll, which has been partly overshadowed by his longstanding legal troubles.
  The immediate effect is to allow Babiš to contest the presidential poll, in which voters cast their ballots on Friday and Saturday, without a legal shadow looming over him.
  
  
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