State attorneys halt Urbanová's prosecution over false testimony

The Prague state attorney's office has said it has halted the prosecution of Marcela Urbanová accused of giving a false testimony in the case of former deputy prime minister Jiří Čunek who was charged with bribery. A spokeswoman for the State Attorney’s office said Ms Urbanová, Jiří Čunek’s former secretary, had not spoken the truth, but had not intended to lie under oath. If found guilty, Ms Urbanová would have faced up to three years in prison. She was accused in June 2008. According to the police she lied about the circumstances in which Mr Čunek allegedly accepted a bribe of half a million crowns in 2002 when he was mayor of the eastern town of Vsetín.