Police investigate possible tax fraud, improper business practices, on part of Bursiks

Czech daily Lidove Noviny has reported that police are investigating the head of the Green Party and Environment Minister Martin Bursik, together with his brother Jiri, on the suspicion of improper business practices. The newspaper said in its Friday edition that the police were looking into a number of possible crimes, including tax fraud. The Bursiks may have breached the law in connection with a building the brothers own and rented through their own company. The environment minister – attending a conference on global warming in Bali – is to return to the Czech Republic on Sunday. Anonymous charges were reportedly put forward against the politician soon after the Greens threatened to leave the government – if embattled former deputy prime minister, Jiri Cunek, was reinstated to the cabinet.