Police officers from the National Center Against Organized Crime (NCOZ) detained eight people on suspicion of committing criminal activity in the allocation of city apartments and non-residential premises in Brno. They are currently conducting house searches based on court orders, the High State Prosecutor’s Office in Olomouc reported this morning on its website. The State Attorney reserved the provision of information in this matter.
“The police authority is now carrying out individual acts of criminal proceedings in several places. House searches and searches of other premises are carried out on the basis of specific court orders. With the consent of the supervising prosecutor, eight people have been detained at this point due to the existence of grounds for detention,” the public prosecutor’s office reports.
Police officers are conducting criminal proceedings under the supervision of the public prosecutor on suspicion of committing the particularly serious crime of participation in an organized criminal group, the particularly serious crime of accepting a bribe committed in favor of an organized criminal group, and the crime of abuse of authority by an official.
In recent years, the police have intervened in Brno several times in connection with the possible purchase of apartments and the taking of bribes. They uncovered an organized criminal group that included local politicians from the ANO movement, officials and businessmen. It was a case called Stoka, in which it involved influencing public contracts at the town hall of the Brno-střed district. The sentences were handed down in May this year. Former deputy mayor of Brno-center Jiří Švachula received the maximum sentence of 9.5 years in prison. The court handed out punishments to eight other people and two companies in the case.
Source: NCOZ and CTK
