Czech police have detained an employee of the Czech National Bank (ČNB) who, according to investigators, spent years circumventing internal rules to siphon money out of the bank. The damage is estimated at tens of millions of koruna, police
Police in the Karviná region have opened an investigation against a 19-year-old woman who tried to buy a fake driver's licence through the Telegram messenger app but, after never receiving the document, reported the "scammers" to police her
A 28-year-old woman has died in the town of Horní Bříza in the Plzeň region after falling from a moving Ford Mustang last week. The news was confirmed on Friday morning by police spokeswoman Eva Červenková.According to her, police have open
Police are searching for a minor girl who fled a children's summer camp in the area around the Czech town of Trutnov. According to police, the missing girl is in a distressed psychological state and has no identification, money or mobile ph
An elderly woman in Czechia has become the latest victim of investment fraud, handing over a substantial sum of money to scammers even after her bank warned her the transaction looked suspicious. According to police, the total damage came t
A triple collision involving a car, a tram and a motorcycle occurred in Prague 8 on Zenklova Street, near its junction with Pod Vlachovkou Street. The car's driver died at the scene, while the motorcyclist suffered serious injuries, police
Czech parliament member Patrik Nacher put a substantial sum of money into PlatonCoin, a cryptocurrency offered by the company Platon Life. Its founders — a married couple, Daniel and Julia Tanner — along with two other individuals, now stan
A regional court in Brno has sentenced 49-year-old Elena Prostinaková to a year and a half in prison over an incident at a railway crossing in June 2025, when her car narrowly avoided colliding with a high-speed train travelling at 160 km/h
The Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office of the Czech Republic will make a decision next week in the case of businessman Zdeněk Pelc, who is accused of causing a fatal car crash — the office is weighing whether to file a cassation complaint a
The Regional Court in Plzeň has ruled on the appeal in the case of Punčořová, the former head of the building authority in Jáchymov, who tried to retroactively legalize a massive forest road illegally built to connect the ski resorts of Klí
Phone scammers continue their mass assault on bank accounts across Czechia — the latest incident took place on 8 May, a public holiday, when a 30-year-old woman with a university degree, who asked to be called Kateřina, narrowly avoided fal
Fraudsters posing as government agencies and delivery companies have stepped up their activity across Czechia in recent weeks, flooding phones with fake SMS messages. Victims have already lost tens and even hundreds of thousands of crowns a