Four officials sacked for shady past

Four senior officials of the Interior Ministry have been dismissed after it emerged that they had collaborated with the former communist secret police, the daily Mladá fronta Dnes wrote on Tuesday. The paper said that one of them had even sought a position in the recently established Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Interior Minister Ivan Langer ordered a new round of screening after it emerged that some officials in top management posts who collaborated with the communist secret service may have slipped through the net.