Four Přerov council members to be charged with corruption

The police will charge the mayor of Přerov, Social Democrat Senator Jiří Lajtoch, along with three council members and two council employees with corruption, a spokesman for the anti-corruption unit of the Czech police said on Tuesday. In 2008, the men allegedly overpriced two public procurement projects. The police were originally going to charge 13 people in the case but the prosecutor dropped the charges against seven of them.

Author: Jan Richter