Czech Ex-PM Charged With Bribery in Deal That Toppled Him
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Former Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas was charged with bribery in connection with a political scandal that brought down his government last year and led to early elections, his lawyer said.
Necas is the highest ranking government official ever to be charged in the Czech Republic. The case relates to an agreement under which three former lawmakers for the Civic Democrats, then headed by Necas, were offered jobs in state companies in exchange for giving up their mandates and allowing the approval of tax increases they opposed, according to attorney Josef Lzicar. Necas rejects the charges and denies wrongdoing, Lzicar said by phone yesterday.