Consequently, the City Court that acquitted Dolezel in January will have to deal with the case again. Dolezel was suspected of demanding a 5-million-crown bribe from Polish lobbyist Jacek Spyra in 2005 in exchange for returning the Seta company, for which Spyra was lobbying, into the negotiations on the Czech Unipetrol privatisation. Commercial TV Nova managed to record several of their meetings with a hidden camera and broadcast the shots. According to the charges, Dolezel committed a fraud since he had no power to meet his promise in his then position and the privatisation was completed by the time of his meetings with Spyra.
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(Ceske Noviny)
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