Olomouc – Today, the Supreme Court in Olomouc will issue a verdict in the Olomouc corruption case codenamed Vidkun. The former Olomouc regional police deputy Karel Kadlec, businessman Ivan Kyselý and former governor Jiří Rozbořil (ČSSD, now SOCDEM) are responsible in the case concerning the leakage of information from police files and the influencing of cases. All three left the regional court with a suspended sentence and a fine, the prosecutor is asking for five years in prison for Kadlec and five times the originally imposed fine for Kyselý. The trio denied guilt throughout the trial.
The court will issue its verdict nine years after the intervention of the Unit for the Detection of Organized Crime in Prague and the Olomouc Region and 4.5 years after the case was opened at the Olomouc Regional Court. The Supreme Court is dealing with the case for the second time, last February in a closed hearing, it overturned the verdict and returned the case to the Olomouc Regional Court, stating that the decision was premature. The court then imposed stricter conditional and monetary penalties on the actors.
The Vidkun case, named after Norwegian Nazi collaborator Vidkun Quisling, exposes corrupt relationships between businessmen, police and public officials. According to the indictment, Kadlec provided Kyselé with information from nine criminal proceedings over a long period of time. According to the prosecutor, Kyselý used this information to strengthen his influence. Both deny guilt, as does former governor Rozbořil, who is on trial for one thing in the whole case, when, according to the verdict, he offered Kadlec a bribe for information on the case of the construction of an equestrian area in Lazce.
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Source: www.ceskenoviny.cz
