State attorney appeals suspended sentences in Nečasová BIS leak case

The state attorney’s office has appealed against verdicts handed down in a case relating to the leak of information from the BIS security service. The state attorney says the suspended sentences handed to former chief prime ministerial aide Jana Nečasová, influential businessman Ivo Rittig and his lawyer David Michal last month were overly lenient. All three were found guilty of abusing classified BIS information. Jana Nečasová’s arrest in 2013 helped bring down the government of then prime minister Petr Nečas, whom she later married.

Author: Ian Willoughby