The attorneys concerned include former VSZ head Vlastimil Rampula and his deputy Libor Grygarek, who still keeps the post of deputy high state attorney.
The other two are Ladislav Letko, the VSZ attorney who was in charge of the MUS case, and Marcela Kratochvilova, former head of the VSZ´s serious financial crime department.
All four will be taken off duty as soon as the decision is delivered to them, on Monday at the latest, Pospisil said.
He said he blames Letko for inactivity as the attorney supervising the MUS case. He blames the other three, all Letko´s superiors, for failing to check his work appropriately.
Supreme State Attorney Pavel Zeman proposed the filing of disciplinary lawsuits by Pospisil on Wednesday, Helena Markusova, spokeswoman for the Supreme State Attorney´s Office (NSZ), told CTK earlier today.
The new VSZ head, Stanislav Mecl, previously said his predecessor in the post, Vlastimil Rampula, is among those responsible for the VSZ´s sluggish handling of the Swiss request for legal assistance in the case of the suspicious privatisation of MUS, a Czech company.
Mecl was referring to the result of a check he had made at the VSZ late last year.
Markusova said Zeman has studied the MUS file the VSZ presented to him on December 14, 2011.
She said Zeman, after assessing the file and comparing it with Mecl´s report on the check at the VSZ, on January 4 recommended that Pospisil propose that disciplinary proceedings be launched against some VSZ attorneys.
Mecl previously said the check unveiled many-month unsubstantiated delays in the VSZ´s handling of Switzerland´s request for legal assistance, and a delay of more than a year in handling Bern´s offer to Prague to join the criminal proceedings as the injured party and claim compensation for the damage incurred.
Mecl, too, said in December that Letko is to blame for the delays, while other responsible attorneys are Rampula, Kratochvilova, Grygarek.
The protractions in the proceedings threatened the aim of the relevant criminal proceedings in the Czech Republic by enabling parts of the checked transactions becoming statute-barred. In addition, the protractions complicated Prague´s claim to a compensation for the damage and also threatened the Czech Republic´s trustworthiness in the area of international judicial cooperation, Mecl said recently.
He has also asked the police to assess whether a crime may have been committed.
The Czech police have been dealing with the MUS case for many years but they have accused no one so far.
Switzerland started to investigate MUS privatisation in June 2005 on suspicion the firm´s management took illegally money away from the firm.
According to the indictment, a big part of property was transferred to Switzerland and "laundered."
Switzerland has reacted with freezing an equivalent of 12 billion crowns. In October 2011, six Czech and one Belgian managers were charged in Switzerland with money laundering, a fraud and forging documents.
The Swiss asked the Czech Republic in the past whether it wants to join the criminal proceedings as the injured party. Czech authorities, however, ignored the question for almost one year and missed the chance.
The Czech Republic is now seeking a way to gain the blocked money. Author: CTK
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