Six accused are at large, Brno police conducted 28 house searches and interview 30 people
The City Court in Brno today remanded the first of the eight defendants in custody in the case of manipulation of apartments in the Brno-střed town hall. It concerns the manager of the real estate agency Zdeňko Červinka. His defense attorney Pavel Hála told journalists. Now the court is deciding on the detention of the second accused, ODS politician Otakar Bradáč. The other six accused are at large. Police conducted 28 house searches and interviewed 30 people.
Hála stated that the court decided on his client's detention in order to prevent the criminal activity from continuing. According to Hála, Červinka faces accusations of manipulation of apartments in seven cases with damage of hundreds of thousands of crowns. "The client wants to face this criminal proceeding, he does not intend to hide anything. He approaches it openly. He seeks the status of a cooperating accused," Hála said. According to him, the police will probably have to look for evidence at the town hall.
In addition to Bradáč and Červinka, among those prosecuted are the representative of the ANO movement in Brno-Černovice, Radim Suchánek, who worked at the Real Estate Administration in Brno-střed, but the secretary reassigned him elsewhere today. Others are Červink's companion Eva Vágnerová and Kateřina Pospíšilová, Jiří Povolný, Ludvík Kraus and Marek Horvath, who, according to CT, are linked to the Brno real estate market.
Police officers were already interested in the Brno-střed town hall in the past. In 2019, the so-called Stoka case surfaced. The police then uncovered an organized group that included local politicians from the ANO movement, officials and businessmen. The group influenced public contracts at the town hall. The sentences were handed down in May this year. Former deputy mayor of Brno-střed Jiří Švachula received the highest prison sentence of 9.5 years. The court handed out punishments to eight other people and two companies.
Source: CTK
