Police propose taking Dolezel,Peta, Rehulka into custody

Police have proposed that former head of the prime minister's office Zdenek Dolezel charged with blackmail and corruption and two other persons accused in the same case should be taken into custody, a spokeswoman said on Thursday. A court is to decide within 24 hours whether Zdenek Dolezel, Ladislav Peta and Miloslav Rehulka will be taken into custody. The charges against Mr Dolezel, Mr Peta, mayor of the small south Moravian town of Budisov, and Mr Rehulka, an Agriculture Ministry employee, were brought on Wednesday in connection with suspected corruption in the handling of EU structural funds channelled via the Local Development Ministry and blackmail of architect Marek Ricar who reported the planned fraud to the police.