Foreign Ministry fined over leak of Topolánek-Sarkozy recordings

The National Security Office has fined the Foreign Ministry over the leak of alleged recordings of talks between Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris last October, the head of the office Dušan Navrátil told Czech Radio on Monday. The office imposed a 77,000 crown fine on the ministry. At the meeting Prime Minister Topolánek and President Sarkozy discussed delicate foreign political issues and the handing over of the EU presidency from Paris to Prague. The Czech Embassy in France, did not mark the recordings of the talks as “not destined for publication” though it should have done so, Navrátil told Czech Radio.