Czech Prosecutor General Pavel Zemman resigned due to cases of explosions in Vrbetice in 2014. This was stated by Vice Prime Minister Carl Gavlichke, Lidové Noviny reports.
It is reported that the decision of the Zemren on the departure was influenced by the pressure from the Czech Minister of Justice Marie Benezova. She planned to submit a disciplinary lawsuit against the Prosecutor General after his speech at a press conference dedicated to the explosions on weapons warehouses.
Benezheva stressed that the decision of the land became surprising for her. The Prosecutor General will leave his post on June 30, after which his successor name will be announced.
Czech Republic Head of the Czech Republic Yang Hamachek in Twitter Thanked Zemman over the years and for cooperation in the Incident Investigation With explosions. He called the Prosecutor General “High-class lawyer and a professional.”
May 4 Zeman made that the case of explosions in 2014 ammunition warehouses in Vrbetice can be stopped if they cannot interrogate suspects or ensure their presence.
Czech Republic accuses Russian intelligence services in involvement in the explosions in the warehouse of ammunition in Vrbetice on October 16, 2014, which killed two people. Then, presumably ten thousand kilograms of ammunition exploded, including medium-range missiles. According to the version of Prague, a day before the explosion of a warehouse in it was Russians Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, whom Great Britain accuses to attempt to poison the former Agent Gro Sergey Skripal.