Constitutional Court to rule on length of Rath’s detention

The Constitutional Court is to rule on Thursday on a complaint from the former central Bohemian governor David Rath regarding the length of time he was held in custody on suspicion of corruption and abuse of office. The former governor, who was arrested with seven million crowns of alleged bribe money in a wine box, spent a year and a half in prison after the courts repeatedly rejected his request for bail. Rath’s lawyer claims the length of his detention in custody was unjustified and an infringement on his basic human rights.