A Prague court has ordered the Interior Ministry to remove ice hockey association head Vratislav Kulhanek's name from list of StB agents and collaborators.

A Prague municipal court has ordered the Interior Ministry to remove another name from its official list of former communist-era secret police agents. On Monday a judge ruled that there was no proof that Skoda Auto supervisory head Vratislav Kulhanek -- who also serves as the chairman of the Czech Ice Hockey Association -- had knowingly worked for the StB. An official list of StB agents and collaborators was published on the Interior Ministry's Internet site last spring.

Author: Brian Kenety