He added that the court would decide on the proposal. Svoboda and Snopkova, his former adviser, were sentenced to five years in prison in February 2005 for siphoning off assets of the Liberta pram maker in Melnik, central Bohemia. Svoboda, finance minister in the CSSD government of Milos Zeman, has been the first member in a post-1989 government to be given a prison sentence.
He was also CSSD deputy chairman from 1997 and together with Snopkova they were in charge of the party's finances. Originally, they both faced up to 12 years in prison for the crimes committed in 1996-1998 when they were in the management of the Czech CSSD chairman calls on Wolf to give up mandate of MP ...
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(Ceske Noviny)
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