Daily: former PM, wife, buy luxury apartment in Florida

The Czech daily Mladá fronta Dnes has reported that former prime minister Stanislav Gross and his wife Šárka Grossová have bought a luxury flat in the US state of Florida. The paper reported on Friday that the couple paid 13 million crowns (the equivalent of roughly 800,000 US dollars) for an apartment in a residential complex known as Hidden Bay. The paper speculates that the former prime minister bought the flat from proceeds from a controversial sale of shares in the power company Moravia Energo. Mr Gross made an estimated 80 million crowns in the deal. In April three years ago Mr Gross was forced to step down as prime minister following a scandal related to his personal finances.