Women fine one million each for negligence in 1997 post office robbery

A court has ordered two former cashiers to pay more than one million crowns each to the Czech postal service for their negligence in a 1997 robbery. In the biggest robbery of its kind in the Czech Republic, three armed and masked perpetrators stole 28 million crowns from a post office. The two women were accused of facilitating the crime by failing to follow security procedures, leaving a window open and the safe unlocked. Three young men were charged with the crime but released for lack of evidence.