In a written testimony, Ratmír Rath, the father of the former Central
Bohemian governor David Rath who is on trial for corruption, has claimed
that the almost nine million crowns in cash that the police found last
year
in his son’s home in Hostivice belong to him. The defendant’s father
was unable to attended the hearing on Wednesday for health reasons, but
the
testimony read out to the court stated that the money were his and his
late
wife’s savings, most of which Mr. Ratmír Rath earned when he worked as
a doctor
in Qatar in the 1990’s. The police confiscated the money during the raid
last August, on suspicion that it was a bribe. David Rath and ten other
defendants are on trial for bribe-taking and the manipulation of tenders
in
the construction and health care sectors in the Central Bohemia Region.