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The Czech Republic’s main absorption enactment has called for a no-confidence ballot successful the authorities connected Thursday, accusing it of corruption implicit a $45 cardinal Bitcoin outgo from a convicted criminal.
Alena Schillerova, vice seat of the right-wing ANO party, said successful a Thursday station to X that her enactment felt determination was “no choice” but to taxable the no-confidence motion, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
The Czech Justice Ministry said connected May 28 it had sold astir 500 Bitcoin (BTC) for 1 cardinal Czech koruna ($45 million) successful an auction aft receiving it from Tomas Jirikovsky, who ran an online achromatic marketplace and was convicted of embezzlement, cause trafficking and weapons violations successful 2017.
Source: Alena SchillerovaCzech absorption wants probe connected Bitcoin donation
In the days since the sale, ANO has called for an probe into the behaviour of the ministry and asked for accusation connected who authorized the transaction.
Among the different demands are whether the root of the Bitcoin was “legally vetted” earlier the sale, according to a Thursday station from ANO.
The enactment besides alleged the winners of the Bitcoin auction “are demanding their funds back” and privation to cognize “from what sources the harm volition beryllium compensated.”
Justice curate resigns implicit scandal
Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek resigned connected May 30 aft facing mounting pressure, but denied immoderate wrongdoing and said his determination to permission was astir protecting the government’s estimation successful the pb up to the predetermination successful October.
On Tuesday, Czech President Petr Pavel swore successful Eva Decroix arsenic the caller justness minister, who promised to bid an autarkic probe into the ministry’s actions.
Source: Eva DecroixShe has since said that the Ministry of Justice, nether her leadership, would “provide practice successful the probe of the donation case.”
Other satellite leaders nether occurrence implicit crypto dealings
Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, has besides faced scrutiny implicit his X station endorsing the Libertad project’s native Solana token, Libra (LIBRA), which rallied to a marketplace capitalization of $4.56 cardinal connected Feb. 14.
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It fell by implicit 94% aft helium deleted his post, prompting accusations of a pump-and-dump scheme. Argentina’s anti-corruption bureau has cleared Milei of immoderate wrongdoing and said successful a June 5 solution that Milei was acting successful a idiosyncratic capableness erstwhile helium endorsed the token and did not interruption national morals laws for nationalist officials.
US President Donald Trump has besides been scrutinized by the country’s opposing Democratic Party implicit his crypto dealings.
On May 7, Democrat lawmakers launched a multi-prong onslaught connected Trump’s crypto ventures with 2 bills and a subcommittee enquiry aimed astatine cutting his quality to nett from the initiatives.
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