State prosecutors have requested a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence for former Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek in the bitcoin case that cost him his post a year ago and, according to observers, damaged the centre-right government's r
In Ostrava, a routine document check turned into a dangerous chase after a Volkswagen driver sped away from police at speeds of up to 200 kilometres per hour along the road toward Havířov, police spokeswoman Nikol Bočková reported.According
In a village in the Chomutov region, a shop assistant at a local grocery store sold alcohol to underage girls without checking their age. According to police spokeswoman Miroslava Hlogovská, the group of minors bought the alcohol and immedi
A former employee of a hospital in Děčín has spoken out about the conduct of a department head who is now under investigation on suspicion of administering excessive or medically unjustified doses of opioids and sedatives to patients — dose
The prosecutor's office of the High Court in Olomouc has filed charges in the high-profile "bitcoin case" against four defendants: programmer and former drug dealer Tomáš Jiříkovský, former Justice Minister Pavel Blažek, his ex-deputy Radom
The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office in Olomouc has requested 6.5 years in prison for former Justice Minister Pavel Blažek (formerly of ODS) and his then deputy Radomír Daňhel, 8 years for lawyer Karim Tica, and, for the case's main defen
A fraud campaign exploiting fake news sites branded with the logos of well-known Czech media outlets — along with deepfake videos of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and other public figures — is spreading rapidly across Czechia. According to th
The death toll from a night-time crash on the D52 motorway near Pohořelice in the South Moravian Region has risen to three, South Moravian police spokesman David Chaloupka said on Sunday.The accident occurred just after midnight on Saturday
Well-known court bailiff Igor Ivanko is once again facing bankruptcy: a new petition has been filed with the insolvency register seeking his financial collapse, with debts running into tens of millions of crowns. Ivanko's activities have be
In Bratislava, an unknown man punched a woman sitting on a bus in the face for no apparent reason, then calmly stepped off and disappeared. Slovak police reported the incident on social media.According to police, the incident took place on
Police in Havlíčkův Brod have detained a 27-year-old Ukrainian national who arrived to collect an envelope containing 590,000 crowns from a scammed pensioner — the latest installment in a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme. The cou
Residents of Belgrade's Palilula district discovered a suspicious suitcase on Thursday evening, and inside it was the dismembered body of a young woman. According to the Serbian newspaper Telegraf, the victim was a missing Russian national