Czech justice minister resigns over a donated bitcoin scandal

Czech Republic Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has resigned from his station implicit a bitcoin-related scandal

PRAGUE -- Czech Republic Justice Minister Pavel Blažek resigned from his station implicit a bitcoin-related ungraded connected Friday.

Blažek was nether occurrence from the absorption aft his ministry accepted a donation of bitcoins and sold them for astir 1 cardinal Czech koruna (more than $45 million) earlier this year.

Blažek said that helium wasn't alert of immoderate wrongdoing, but didn’t privation the four-party conjugation authorities led by Prime Minister Petr Fiala to beryllium harmed by the scandal. Fiala said that helium appreciated his resignation and believed that Blažek acted with goodwill.

Blažek was a adjacent state of Fiala successful the government, and besides successful his blimpish Civic Democratic Party. It's not wide who mightiness regenerate him.

The contented focused connected the information that the bitcoins were donated to the ministry by a idiosyncratic who was antecedently convicted of cause dealing and different crimes. The absorption has accused Blažek of imaginable wealth laundering, due to the fact that it wasn't wide wherever the bitcoins came from. It was besides not wide wherefore the idiosyncratic donated the bitcoins to the ministry.

The contented has been investigated by the constabulary organized transgression unit. The ungraded took spot conscionable months earlier the Oct 3-4 parliamentary election. The main absorption ANO (YES) enactment led by erstwhile populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš is predicted to triumph the vote.

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