Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s citizen Democratic Party has endured a fourth attempt to overthrow its government within three years – this time with the opposition’s $45 million Bitcoin scandal with which they united.
The scandal center has about 1 billion Czech Kruna ($45 million) in Bitcoin (BTC) On May 27, Thomas Jikovsky (Tomáš Jishu) donated money to the Ministry of Justice, who was previously convicted of drug trafficking, weapon crimes and embezzlement of public funds.
The Czech opposition ANO, SPD and Pirates received only 94 votes of distrust, a difference of 7 votes compared to 101 votes. The vote took place after more than 24 hours of parliamentary debate according to Czech newspaper reports on Monday.
Voting without trust when a person or opposition party believes that the current leader no longer rules effectively.
although Fiala’s party Surviving the vote of distrust, the controversy has increased growing concern about how government officials can engage in crypto-related activities that may conflict with their responsibilities.
Recent controversies include the U.S. President Donald Trump’s Profit from his long list of cryptocurrencies and Argentina presidents Javier Milei’s Participate in the Libra Token Scandal.
Czech Prime Minister admits to making a mistake
Feiyala says $45 million in Bitcoin donation It could have been prevented and admitted that the incident sparked public confidence in his party.
Fiara said in a report from Czech-English Translator that the Citizen Democrats would be “responsible for moral misconduct.”
However, he accused the opposition of using debate to “throwing dirt, insult and lying” in his party postal Wednesday on X.
We voted again to distrust the government. It turned out to be expected, and the government voted.
The opposition used the meeting as always – throwing dirt, insults and lies. Meanwhile, we learned from Andrejbabiš that he really didn’t want any information and he wasn’t interested in any review. exist… pic.twitter.com/oguqhleizz
-PETR FIALA (@p_fiala) June 18, 2025
The other three unconfidences opposed the Citizen Democrats, spanning issues related to energy, inflation and espionage between September 2022 and October 2023.
Newly appointed attorney general investigates Bitcoin donations
The incident led to the former attorney general Pavel Blažek’s resignation On May 30, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura also faced pressure to resign because he claimed he knew about donations.
On June 10, Czech President Petr Pavel swore in Eva Decroix to serve as the new attorney general, who promised an independent investigation into the ministry’s actions.
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Since then explain Under her leadership, the Justice Department will “provide cooperation in investigating donation cases.”
Details of controversial Bitcoin donations
Jifenkov provided one-third of his crypto wallet (1,561 bitcoins) to the Justice Department as a donation authorized by a court ruling that returned the equipment he had previously seized.
However, Jifenkovsky was sentenced in 2017 and issued in 2021 and has previously controlled another 3,855.15 bitcoins related to the illegal website nuclear market.
Technological expert Ji iberger explain Because they store it on older technology, they have no access to the larger hiding of 3,855.15 Bitcoin.
