Former counter-intelligence chief under investigation

The police have begun an investigation into Karel Randák, the former head of Czech counter-intelligence and a member of the board of trustees of the Anticorruption Endowment, on charges that he leaked privileged information. Randák along with one other person from the Office of the Government are being accused of leaking information related to the salary bonus of Jana Nagyová, the managing director of Prime Minister Petr Nečas’s cabinet. The information that Ms Nagyová received approximately 190 thousand crowns in March, with a basic salary of 30 thousand crowns a month, became public earlier this year. Mr Randák said that this investigation has been initiated as a threat to his bid in this winter’s presidential election.