Mládek says security clearance stopped, not rejected

Jan Mládek, the proposed minister for industry and trade and ostensible object of president Zeman’s suggestions that one cabinet candidate could be a security risk after failing to obtain clearance from the National Security Authority (NBÚ), has also defended himself. Mládek said his last clearance process was stopped when he started working in the private sector and it was no longer required. Mládek has previously been a minister of agriculture and deputy minister of finance. Fellow Social Democrat nominee Milan Chovanec said he did not use the law degree he earned under a controversial fast track process from the scandal hit Plzeň Law Faculty.