Publisher fined for police wiretaps leaks

The Czech personal data protection agency has fined the Mafra publishing house 240,000 crowns for printing information proceeding from police wiretaps for then prime minister Petr Nečas and his former aide and now wife Jana Nagyová. The wiretaps appeared last May in the daily Mladá fronta Dnes which belongs to the Mafra portfolio. The publishing company is owned by deputy prime minister and leader of the ANO party, Andrej Babiš. The police wiretapped the phones of Mr Nečas and Ms Nagyová as part of investigation into alleged corruption which led to the fall of the Czech government in June 2013.

Author: Jan Richter