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A court in Břeclav, southern Moravia, sent a town hall clerk from another Moravian town Znojmo, to jail on Saturday, pending investigation of alleged corruption. Another four people are being investigated for bribery; none of them are elected officials. The arrested man, Tomáš Krejčír, has also been charged with abuse of power. The police raided Znojmo town hall earlier this week and said they found evidence of corruption in the departments focusing on property development.

Slavia Prague manager Karel Jarolím said he would offer to step down following Friday’s 3:0 defeat by Slovácko in the top Czech division. The top flight club Slavia on Friday failed to win for the sixth time in a row and ranks 10th after ten rounds of the top division, 15 points behind league leaders Plzeň. Jarolím, who joined Slavia in 2005, has won league titles and reached the Champions League. Last season he left the top flight club in March over poor results only to come back two months later.

The leadership of the TOP 09 party has announced it will withdraw from local elections in the city of Liberec and plans to cancel its organisation there. The party’s deputy chairman Miroslav Kalousek apologised to voters on Friday, telling reporters that the decision was the result of inappropriate behaviour on the part of a party electoral representative, who struck three of his rivals off the ballot, including the top candidate. The party revoked the representative’s power of proxy on Monday, but not before the changes to the ballot were legally binding. Mr Kalousek said he did not want to offer voters a “rotten apple” and would instead support partner parties in the city. TOP 09 was one of the favourites in the local election in Liberec, where they defeated the incumbent Civic Democratic Party in parliamentary elections earlier this year.

The Minister of Education, Josef Dobeš, has bowed to pressure to dismiss the head of the ministry’s investments division, Michal Pilin, over suspicions of corruption. The dismissal came hours after Czech Radio reported on Friday that Mr Pilin had already been forced out of the ministry of education once before for alleged manipulation of tenders. The minister defended Mr Pilin on Friday, saying he did not believe he had done anything wrong, but made the dismissal in order to put an end to media speculation. Mr Dobeš said he had not yet read an audit carried out by the previous education minister, which allegedly proves Mr Pilin’s involvement in suspicious orders that led to the loss of hundreds of millions of crowns.