What caused Jacques de Groote, the former CEO of the World Bank and director of the International Monetary Fund, now 90 years old, to spend the last 10 years in court? In large part, it’s allegations of fraud over his involvement with a group of Czech entrepreneurs who took an ailing coal mine, turned it around and sold it for a substantial profit. But also, because a Swiss court hired a Pole to translate Czech documents and then failed to call for the translation of more than 90 percent of the documents associated with the transaction.
