Prague’s Municipal Court also fined Miroslav Pelta 5 million
Czech crowns ($220,000) and banned him from an executive position in
corporations for five years.
In the same case, the court sentenced Simona Kratochvilova,
a former deputy education minister, to six-and-a-half years in prison, banned
her from working in state offices for six years and fined her 2 million Czech
crowns ($88,000).
The two denied wrongdoing and appealed.
The case dates to 2017 when police raided the federation
headquarters and the offices of FK Jablonec, a provincial first-division club
partly owned by Pelta.
Prosecutors said the reason for the raids was investigating
fraud involving Pelta in connection with state subsidies.
The court said Pelta used his personal relationship with
Kratochvilova to influence who would receive state subsidies, attempting to
cause damage worth almost 176 million Czech crowns ($7.8 million).
Pelta resigned from his post a month after he was detained
in May 2017.
Also, Education Minister Katerina Valachova resigned over
the scandal though she was not a suspect. -AP
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