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The Ministry of Justice is investigating what kinds of offences could have been committed by the expert, whose testimony at the Plzeň-město District Court this May formed the basis for a ruling limiting the autonomy of Michal Redl, the main defendant in the Dozimeter case, for the next five years.

The ministry has not yet decided whether to initiate expert sentencing. However, based on the statement of the director of the bankruptcy department and forensic expert, Jan Benýšek, that in the event that professional wrongdoing is proven, the expert faces fines or even criminal prosecution.

“Currently, the ministry is investigating whether there may have been a breach of professionalism or other misconduct on the part of the experts during the preparation of the assessment (especially with a focus on the lege artisan procedures and review capabilities). They did so before starting proceedings for misdemeanors, which could result in the commencement of proceedings for misdemeanors. leniency or adjournment of cases,” Benýšek said in response to a question raised by editor Seznam Zpráv under the Law on Freedom of Access to information.

At the same time, Jan Benýšek stated that a detailed examination of the expert’s procedure could also result in criminal prosecution, if it turns out to be not just a “formal offence”.

Michal Redl’s mental health was assessed by expert Miroslava Synková before this year’s trial. His report, which the ministry requested from the court, concluded that Redl’s mental illness was “permanent and incurable.”

Miroslava Synková has not commented on the case, although many media outlets, including Seznam Zpráv, have repeatedly asked for an explanation.

Pilsen’s court ruling, a copy of which was made available to Seznam Zpravy in an anonymous form, also stated that “experts have medical reports from psychiatrists present.”

The treating doctor was mentioned for the first time in a letter recently sent by the Minister of Justice, Pavel Blažek to Prague’s chief prosecutor Lence Bradáčová regarding the Redl case. In the text about already News list informed, Blažek writes about “doc. MD for Vladimir Pidrman”. He is a psychiatrist with an office in Hradec Králové.

List News tried to get his say, too. He neither confirmed nor denied that he was the doctor who treated Michal Redl. “Even if I do, you know there are some medical secrets,” he said. He would not comment even under the circumstances that it was a specific and closely watched case. “Precisely because it is specific,” said Pidrman also then hung up the phone.

As Seznam Zprávy has reported, Blažko’s ministry gave the Prague High Prosecutor’s Office the initiative to ask law enforcement authorities to re-examine the twenty-year-old criminal case “M5”.

In that case, Michal Redl was initially tried along with the notorious underworld figure Radovan Krejčíř, but his criminal prosecution was eventually terminated. Precisely with reference to mental illness that allegedly prevented him from understanding the meaning of the criminal process.

Blažka’s new initiative, which, like the examination of the expert’s role, resulted from ministerial oversight, came in the days when the Pilsen County Court overturned the May decision of the court of first instance to limit Redl’s autonomy.