Prague, Aug 28 (CTK) - The Vietnamese mafia in 2009 released a private video featuring Czech vice-consul Emil Palecek's sex with several women, planning to use it to blackmail the Czech Republic that toughened conditions for granting working visas to the Vietnamese at the time, Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) says Tuesday.
The Czech Foreign Ministry has kept the event secret for three years, the daily writes.
"We may only suppose that the incident involving Mr Palecek and the infringing upon his privacy may have been a reaction to the [then] restrictions in the visa issuance practice at our embassy in Hanoi at the turn of 2008-2009," Karel Srol, from the ministry's press department, told MfD.
Securing working Czech visas was a lucrative business in Vietnam where people were ready to pay an equivalent of 100,000 crowns for a granted visa to black-market intermediaries, MfD recalls.
Not even after the incident involving Palecek did the Czech Republic change its decision to toughen its visa granting conditions, it adds.
Although the sensitive video was available on the Internet for a few hours only, Prague withdrew Palecek from Vietnam.
Addressed by MfD, Palecek said he would not comment on the affair.
In his previous testimony he denied the girls in the video being prostitutes.
According to the ministry, Palecek did not violate working rules. The Czech National Security Office (NBU) did not withdraw his security vetting certificate from him.
At present Palecek works at the Czech embassy in the United Arab Emirates, MfD writes.
Prague Daily Monitor
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