Police shelve case against Drobil

The anti-corruption police has shelved the case against the former environment minister Pavel Drobil on the order of state attorney Šárka Pokorná. The reason cited was that the available evidence did not give grounds to start criminal proceedings against the former top official. Drobil resigned in disgrace in late 2010 after being caught on tape dangling a promotion before whistleblower Libor Michálek, the head of the State Environment Fund, in exchange for Michálek destroying evidence that pointed to systemic kickbacks within the ministry that were redirected into a Civic Democratic Party slush fund. Michálek was later fired. Drobil resigned, and the events spurred the first in a series of government crises.