Prague Castle official forced to pay fine after mishandling secret document

The National Security Authority has fined an employee of the Office of the President for the way he handled his work with secret documents, the agency informed Czech Radio’s Radiožurnál on Thursday. The fine, numbered at CZK 4,000, has been paid and the investigation is now over, according to the agency’s director Jaromír Kadlec.

The individual in question is reported to work for the foreign section of Prague Castle. The case concerned the failure to note a document that had been brought to a meeting with the former Chinese Ambassador to Czechia Huo Yuzhen in the relevant book of records.