Olomouc anti-corruption police chief leaves force

Milan Šošovička, the head of the anti-corruption police in Olomouc, who collected evidence for filing corruption charges against Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek, has left his post, the daily Pravo reports, indicating that the police chief’s departure was not voluntary. The paper also notes that Mr Šošovička is the fifth detective to leave the anti-corruption police in connection with Jiří Čunek’s case. The media are also speculating about similar purges in the judiciary. Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek was suspected of having taken a two million crown bribe when he was the mayor of Vsetín in 2002 but the charges against him were dropped for lack of evidence.