The country’s minister resigned over a $45 million “gift in bitcoins from a drug dealer”
The scandal erupted after local media reported that the ministry had accepted a “gift of cryptocurrency” from a convicted drug dealer. Justice Minister Pavel Blazek resigned on Friday amid mounting public and political pressure over his ministry’s handling of a controversial bitcoin donation linked to a convicted criminal. The scandal erupted after local media reported that the ministry accepted a ” cryptocurrency gift ” from a convicted drug dealer and later, according to a Bloomberg report