Man arrested after receiving over CZK 500,000 for fake gold bars

Police in the Central Bohemian town of Slaný have arrested a 64-year-old man who sold five fake gold bars to a pawnshop. The owner of the pawnbrokers had paid more than CZK 500,000 for the bars, which it later turned out were made of iron. A police spokesperson said it could not be ruled out that the perpetrator had committed similar swindles elsewhere in the Czech Republic.