Source: US News & World Report
“The opposition ANO party plans to call a no-confidence vote in the Czech government after the justice minister resigned over accepting a $45-million bitcoin gift for the ministry from an ex-convict, deputy ANO chief Karel Havlicek said on Tuesday. The minister, Pavel Blazek, a lawyer and veteran senior official in Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s centre-right Civic Democrats party, denied doing anything illegal in his decision to accept the gift — which was part of bitcoin holdings returned to the former convict after he served a jail sentence. The scandal is a further setback for the government which has been trailing the opposition, led by the populist ANO party, in opinion polls before an election set for October 3-4.” (06/03/25)