Former Prague public health chief blackmailed a subordinate and was given probation and fined
The District Court for Prague 1 imposed a two-year suspended sentence and a half-million-dollar fine on Jan Jarolímek, the former director of the Prague City Hygienic Station, said Judge Lukáš Svrček. The case concerns extortion of a subordinate and the verdict is not final. The verdict was reported by Seznam Zprávy. The employee had to hand over up to CZK 95,000 from his own money to the blackmailers, fearing that he would lose his job. Jarolímek’s co-defendants – Radim Bureš, the former head of the Prague Hygiene Department, and Zdeněk Vališ, the former director of the Department of Economic and Operational Activities there – have not yet received a verdict. The judge said he had excluded their criminal proceedings for separate consideration.
Source aktualne.cz/byvaly-sef-prazske-hygieny-vydiral-podrizeneho/