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FRAUD Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek filed a criminal report against Czech Television Oct. 30 after the public TV channel reported that Čuněk stashed away 3.5 million Kč ($185,185) while collecting welfare checks from the state prior to entering politics in 1998, the daily Lidové noviny reported.

 
BLOCKED In an attempt to prevent a planned neo-Nazi march through Prague’s Jewish Quarter on the Nov. 10 anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Jewish Liberal Union booked the route for its own purposes Oct. 29, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported. Despite a recent court ruling overturning its previous ban, Prague City Hall refuses to allow the march.
CHARGED The Hradec Králové Court indicted Oct. 29 former children’s choirmaster Bohumil Kulínský for allegedly having sex with six underage girls, ČTK reported. The prosecutor previously charged Kulínský with sexually abusing 49 members of the Bambini di Praga choir, mostly during tours.
MERIT President Václav Klaus decorated 24 people for artistic, scientific and humanitarian achievements on the Oct. 28 anniversary of the 1918 founding of Czechoslovakia, according to ČTK. The top state decoration, the Order of the White Lion, went to World War II veterans Stanislav Hnělička and Rudolf Hrubec.
DEVELOPMENT A government commission earmarked 1.25 billion Kč Oct. 29 for the development of towns around in the Brdy region, the likely location of the planned U.S. radar base. The towns’ mayors originally demanded three times this sum, according to ČTK.


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