The property of suspects from a number of high-profile cases of economic crimes in the Czech Republic was returned to the suspects following the amnesty announced by President Václav Klaus at the beginning of the year.
However, the Prague High State Attorney’s Office has fought back, asking the Prague City Court to consider re-confiscating the properties. Czech law states that a suspect’s properties can be confiscated if this person cannot be punished for some reason.
“We have filed confiscation requests to the court in all cases in which property has been seized. We believe that this property was gained thanks to profits from criminal activities and we are not going to accept its return easily,” the state attorney Radim Daňhel told Mladá fronta Dnes.
Had they been convicted, the state would have sold their properties and used the revenues to compensate their victims, writes the daily Mladá fronta Dnes.
