Aleš Kvapil, the mayor of Žabovřesky district, and Radovan Novotný, a former secretary of Brno-střed district, were arrested last week and put in custody.
Sono centrum. Source: brnensky.denik.cz
The reasons are not crystal clear, as the police doesn’t want to comment the case too early. According to local press, Kvapil was arrested minutes after he received a bribe of CZK 1,000,000 (€39,000) from a businessman who had been collaborating with the police. The bribery is supposed to be connected with building an extravagant facility called “Sono centrum” – but now we have to wait for further investigation.
Both politicians are members of right-wing Civic Democratic Party.
Update (8 p.m.): Aleš Kvapil left the mayor’s office and Civic Democrats anounced that he was no more their candidate to the chamber of deputies. I hope that is not the end of the case.
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