Municipal House, Nový Bor – Council-Approved, Mayor-Sweetened

Item specifics

Condition	Convicted, 2007; appeal-court ruling final. Ex-mayor mulled a Supreme Court appeal.
Location	Nový Bor, Liberec region, Czech Republic
Seller	Former mayor of Nový Bor (name withheld)
Winning bidder	A firm of a local Nový Bor businessman
Category	Real estate
Returns	No returns. One year in prison, fine of 100 thousand crowns, 5-year local-office ban (2007)

Description

What the bribe bought

The bribe helped win the privatisation of a municipal house, sold to the businessman's firm for almost a million crowns (up to CZK 1,000,000; sale price, not profit).

Return on bribe: Every CZK 1 of bribes bought contracts worth about CZK 6.67.Rough figure: the bribe is stated as “exact”, the gain as “up to”.

What happened

A former mayor of Nový Bor accepted a bribe of 150 thousand crowns. The city council unanimously sold a municipal house to the firm of a local businessman for almost a million crowns. The Liberec Regional Court, as appeal court, sentenced the former mayor to a year in prison for accepting the bribe. It also imposed a fine of 100 thousand crowns and a five-year ban from local-government posts.

Read the article

Přijal úplatek, půjde do vězení. Bývalý starosta dostal rok · Hospodářské noviny (HN.cz) · Article in Czech

Shipping & returns

Authority	Kind	Amount	Year
Krajský soud v Liberci	prison sentence (official)	rok vězení	2007
Krajský soud v Liberci	fine and five-year ban from local-government posts (official)	CZK 100,000≈ €4.1KAs stated in the source: pokutou 100 tisíc korun a pětiletým zákazem práce ve funkcích v samosprávě	2007