Presidential chancellor only at start of security vetting says paper

Embattled presidential chancellor Vratislav Mlynář only delivered the last documents required for the domestic security service to start checking whether he could be cleared to see top secret material at the end of 2014, the daily newspaper Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Friday. That means he completed his part of the process a year after the first application was lodged, the paper pointed out. It said that President Miloš Zeman was under the impression that the security vetting was well under way and not that it had just started. Mlynář is currently under fire for his purchase of a Prague villa at a fraction of its expected market price from a lawyer linked with shady personalities straddling the business and political worlds.

Author: Chris Johnstone