Penta is a Central Europe investment group founded in 1994 in Slovakia by Czech Marek Dospiva and Slovaks Jaroslav Haščák, Martin Kúšik, Jozef Špirko and Jozef Oravkin.
Today, the Group actively develops companies and projects, primarily in healthcare, financial services, retail, manufacturing and real estate. Having grown from a local to international company, Penta operates in more than 10 markets across Europe, providing more than 30,000 jobs through investee companies. Penta owns assets of EUR 6.5 billion. In 2013 Penta achieved a consolidated net profit of EUR 100 mil.
The name Penta is a tribute to the original five founding partners, all schoolmates during their studies in Moscow and Czechoslovakia.
Penta Investments group and its co-owner Jaroslav Haščák have been associated with the Gorilla scandal, a corruption affair that erupted in Slovakia in 2012. The company has been denying the allegations and interpreted the "Gorilla" file as fabricated.
For several years Penta's chief advisor was Alojz Lorenc, the former Head of the Communist Era Czechoslovak Secret Police (StB).
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