The Czech government has resisted a political storm this week, surviving a vote of non -trust trusted for a Bitcoin payment of $ 45 million of a convicted criminal.
The scandal has shaken the administration of Prime Minister Petr Fiala months before the national elections, reports Reuters.
The payment of 468 Bitcoin was made to the State by a man previously imprisoned for executing a Darknet drug market called Sheep Marketplace.
The donation was accepted by the then Minister of Justice, Pavel Blazek, who later resigned in the middle of the reaction, in the name of the government. Bitcoin was sold for approximately 1 billion Koruna Czechs, for a value of around $ 45 million.
The anc opposition party, which leads the surveys before the October vote, presented a motion of non -confidence and accused the ruling coalition of potentially helping in the laundering of illicit money, since the source of the BTC is not clear.
Critics say that the government should have involved prosecutors or police instead of accepting potentially contaminated cryptographic funds. After two days of debate, the motion failed in the lower house, where the Fiala coalition retains the majority.
Even so, Blazek insisted that he acted legally by accepting the donation, which amounted to approximately 30% of the cryptography found in man’s returned devices.
The donor’s reasons are still clear. The case shook the government of a country whose central bank earlier this year approved a proposal to study Bitcoin as a reserve asset. The chief of the Czech National Bank, Ales Michl, even said that Bitcoin should not be “grouped” with cryptography.
Polymarket merchants are currently seeing that the main opposition party, ano, wins the parliamentary elections in October. The perceived probabilities of that result are currently 92%, while the possibilities of Blazek’s Ods Party are only 6%.
