An inspection of public prosecutors revealed another mistake in the Teplice prison. Convicted former Central Bohemian governor David Rath waited for placement in a specific prison for about three weeks longer than necessary. This follows from the additional inspection that the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office had processed for his stay in the remand prison, said today. Czech television on the web. According to the inspection, the prison delayed sending the documents to the General Directorate of the Prison Service.
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Rath entered the Teplice prison last October after he was convicted of corruption in a tender for the reconstruction of the Buštěhrad chateau in the Kladno region. At the end of January this year, he was transferred to the prison in Prague’s Ruzyně. The Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office has previously stated that the Teplice prison violated regulations by allowing the former Social Democratic governor to wear civilian clothes and his own mattress.
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“An additional investigation revealed that the Teplice Remand Prison violated the provisions of Section 6, Paragraph 4 of the Decree of the Ministry of Justice No. 345/1999 Coll., Which lays down the rules of imprisonment,” said Petr Malý, a spokesman for the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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According to the mentioned paragraph, the prison administration is to send all documents to the General Directorate of the Prison Service without undue delay after the initial medical examination and placement of the convicted person in the appropriate security level. This is then to decide on the placement of the convict in a particular prison. According to Malý, the report of the Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office in Ústí nad Labem shows that in Rath’s case there was an unreasonable delay of more than three weeks in sending the data necessary to decide on a convicted person to a specific prison to the General Directorate of the Prison Service.
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Last year, Rath heard a final sentence of seven years in prison in the first branch of the corruption case. Justice found him guilty of influencing the tender for the reconstruction of Buštěhrad Castle in the Kladno region. This year, the Central Bohemian Regional Court found the former governor wrongly guilty in the second part of the case as well. For accepting bribes and manipulated public contracts of the region and regional hospitals, he extended his original sentence by one year.
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