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05/14/2007
A Prague state attorney has appealed against the verdict in the case of former IT minister Vladimir Mlynar. Mr Mlynar has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison in connection with the foundation of the Testcom servis company even though the state prosecutor had proposed only a suspended sentence. Mr Mlynar was accused two years ago of assisting in the criminal offence of abusing confidential information in commercial transactions and of abusing his authority as a public official. Two other men were sentenced to six years in prison in the same case. They, as well as Mr Mlynar, deny any wrongdoing.
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05/14/2007
The CTK news agency reports that Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek met former Prime Minister and Social Democrat chairman Milos Zeman at the weekend. According to Mr Topolanek, they discussed the details of next year's state budget. Mr Topolanek denied speculation that they talked about Mr Zeman's possible influence on certain Social Democrat MPs in an upcoming crucial vote on the government-proposed package of public finance reforms. Although Milos Zeman retired from politics in 2002, politicians from different parties have been coming to his country house in the Vysocina Mountains to consult current political affairs with him.
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05/14/2007
The Interior Ministry says 594 people applied for political asylum in the Czech Republic in the first four months of 2007, compared to 978 in the same period last year and 2,731 in 2004. Most of the asylum seekers this year have come from Ukraine, Vietnam, Mongolia and Georgia. The Czech authorities have granted asylum to 81 foreigners this year. Since July 1990, 3,166 out of nearly 85,000 applicants have been granted asylum and 764 of them have received Czech citizenship.
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05/14/2007
Fire fighters have so far been unable to extinguish a fire at an illegal dump full of rubbish from Germany. The dump near the North Bohemian village of Dolni Rasnice has been on fire since Saturday evening. Five units are taking turns at the site filled with toxic smoke. The fire fighters say it is still not clear whether the fire was started deliberately. In the last 18 months there have been other cases of German waste being illegally imported and burned in the Czech Republic.
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05/13/2007
Police have intensified their search for the sister of an 8-year-old boy who was severely abused by his mother, and are now looking for her around the whole of the Czech Republic. The girl, who is 13, is believed to have run away from a children's home in Brno on Thursday night. However, the website Novinky reported that the case is now being investigated as kidnap. There is some confusion about the girl's past, with reports that the authorities have no record of her existence.
Earlier this week the children's mother was arrested after a neighbour discovered the girl's brother, named Ondrej, was being kept naked and bound in the dark in a storage room. Klara Mauerova, who was studying to be a teacher, has been remanded in custody and could face a jail term of eight years.
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05/13/2007
A service on Sunday to commemorate Roma victims of the Holocaust was interrupted by a far right group. Police removed members of the National Party after they held signs paying tribute to guards who died of typhus at the Lety concentration camp for Romanies. Around 300 Romanies died at the south Bohemian camp, while others were transported to Auschwitz. Plans by the previous Czech government to have a pig farm on site removed have been dropped by the current cabinet.
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05/13/2007
Helder Ornelas from Portugal has become the first European to win the Prague Marathon; since the event began in 1995 it had been dominated by African runners. Ornelas, who is 33, won the race in a time of 2:11:49. Second was Luka Chelimo from Kenya, with another Portuguese, Paulo Gomes, in third. Sixty-nine streets and bridges in the Czech capital were closed off for the race, which this year took a new route. Nineteen of the city's 26 trams were rerouted for the marathon, which was started by President Vaclav Klaus.
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05/13/2007
An illegal dump full of rubbish from Germany has been on fire since Saturday evening. Fire fighters have been trying to put out the fire in the north Bohemian town of Dolni Rasnice. They say it is not clear whether the fire was started deliberately. In the last 18 months there have been other cases of German waste being illegally imported and burned in the Czech Republic.
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05/13/2007
A briefcase containing files relating to the case of fugitive Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir has been found on the street in Brno. The documents had been stolen from a car owned by an attorney from the Supreme State Attorney's Office last week, the news website Aktualne.cz reported. Mr Krejcir, who is wanted on charges of fraud and murder, is currently in custody in South Africa, from where the Czech Republic is seeking his extradition.
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05/13/2007
The world renowned piano manufacturer Petrof could face liquidation because of a legal dispute with the company's exclusive distributor in the United States, TV Nova reported. Earl Matzkin says the Hradec Kralove based firm owes him money; Petrof, meanwhile, says it owes Mr Matzkin nothing and accuses him of wanting to produce pianos under the Petrof brand in Asia. A court in Hradec Kralove is due to rule on the matter on Tuesday. The company was founded in 1864 and produces 7,000 pianos a year.
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