Police president claims pressure from Interior Minister

In an interview with the newspaper Právo published on Friday, Czech police president Petr Lessy claimed that Minister of the Interior Jan Kubice was using extortion-like methods to pressure Lessy to leave his post. As one such example Lessy claimed that he was being deliberately denied bonuses equating to around a third of his expected pay. The conflict between the two officials goes back to the police president’s nomination for the post at the end of 2010, which was supported by former Interior Minister Radek John but not by current minister Kubice. Lessy made news recently when he accused Finance Minister Kalousek of exerting pressure on him in an anti-corruption investigation related to allegedly overpriced purchases of military hardware by the Ministry of Defence.

Author: Dominik Jůn