Daily: man in charge of Europol IT a former communist-era agent

Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny has reported that a former agent of communist Czechoslovakia's military counter-intelligence has been heading the IT department of the European Police Office known as Europol. According to the daily, the former agent's file was established in 1981 but was shredded after ten months. The former agent, Pavel Cincar, received negative lustration certificates in the 1990s; he has reacted by saying that "someone had used common sense" in understanding that over his ten months as an agent "he couldn't have done much". Mr Cincar's vetting history is just one of many that have come under review in an audit ordered by the interior minister.