“There are no bribes. This is a strange legal construct that is destroying Czech politics,” Nečas told reporters today. He said he was not frightened by the police request to the Chamber of Deputies for his possible extradition. According to him, the normal balance of intra-party interests, attempts to find compromise solutions to certain intra-party, intra-coalition situations are now being criminalized.

But the police have a different opinion. In resolutions on accusations by Jana Nagyová, Petr Tluchoř, Ivan Fuksa, Marek Šnajdr and Roman Boček, published by the server E15.cz, claiming that it was an act of corruption. According to investigators, Nečas offered the politician a position in a state-owned company in exchange for surrendering their parliamentary mandate and supporting his government. By accepting this “deal”, the politicians were allegedly following their own interests and thus violating the promises of parliament and the law.

“If it is done like this, that this is considered a criminal act, then that means closing all political representatives,” repeated Nečas. He made the same statement regarding the police’s opinion at the end of last week after the outbreak of the case.

Nečas only admits that the procedure chosen in the case of the three former MPs may not “smell” for everyone. “I say yes, someone may not like it, someone may not smell it, it looks unpleasant, but unpleasant behavior does not mean it is against the law,” Nečas said.

A trio of MPs from the governing ODS – Petr Tluchoř, Ivan Fuksa and Marek Šnajdr – resigned from their mandate last November over a dispute over the government’s tax package and are now suspected of doing so for a promise of extra benefits, thereby breaking the law.

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