President Pavel fined over missing donor data

President Petr Pavel has received a fine of CZK 60,000 from the supervisory authority overseeing the financial management of political parties for failing to provide data on some financial donors to his presidential campaign, such as address and date of birth. The number of donors with missing data has not been made public.

Speaking to journalists during his visit to Poland, Mr Pavel said that if donors do not provide the data themselves, there is no way of getting it from them, adding that CZK 60,000 is the standard fine for minor irregularities and that such things simply happen sometimes.

The fine is the highest granted by the authority to a natural person to date.