The Prague Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against five people in the so-called Beretta case, which concerns the removal of information from criminal proceedings. The server wrote it Lidovky.cz. Prague prosecutor Dagmar Máchová, police officer of the anti-corruption unit Radek Holub, former customs officer Pavel Šíma and former police officers Igor Gáborík and Vladimír Zmrhal are facing charges in the case.
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“Yesterday (Thursday) I filed charges against five natural persons, one of whom is a member of the police, one person is a member of the customs administration and one person is a public prosecutor,” said Lenka Bradáčová, who is supervising the case.
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She added that the group was facing charges of criminal offenses of misuse of authority, acceptance of bribery, bribery, unauthorized access to a computer system and information carrier, violation of the secrecy of documents and other documents kept in private and shareholding.
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According to criminal investigators, Holub, Šíma and Máchová unjustifiably passed information to Gáborík, for example from the cases of Na Homolce Hospital or the Prague transport company. Gáborík then allegedly continued to provide them.
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Lawyer Macha server Lidovky.cz He said he received the lawsuit by mailbox on Thursday. “It simply came to our notice then. But prosecutors have different views. We’ll see in court. It went to the District Court for Prague-East. Now it is divination from a crystal ball, “said the well-known Prague lawyer Vít Široký.
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Dagmar Máchová was one of the most influential people at the Prague City Public Prosecutor’s Office. She was proud that in about 90 percent of the cases she sends to the court, it ends with a final judgment. But she was also the first prosecutor to be prosecuted. And in the Opencard case, which she oversaw. Doubts about the way in which the Opencard case was investigated meant that, in addition to the criminal complaint, the deputies also initiated an investigation with the General Inspectorate of Security Forces (GIBS). For this case, she earned the nickname “Lady Opencard” in the circles of her critics.
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