Former Communist spy to face trial on insurance fraud

Pavel Minařík, a spy under former Communist Czechoslovakia, will go to court next week for an insurance fraud. His company allegedly exported scrap optic fibres to Ukraine. Once across the border, his associates burnt the cargo and reported a traffic accident instead. Between 1969 and 1976, Pavel Minařík was an elite spy working for Czechoslovak intelligence. He spent eight years undercover in Germany and worked at the Czech section of the Munich-based Radio Free Europe – Radio Liberty.