STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2386, sig. 109-12/31 (damaged)

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nS - 30 - no money from the defendant Novak for his assistance in the alleged interventions has been paid for. Therefore, a monetary interest cannot be accepted as a motive for this support. For reasons still to be discussed, his motivation was a political-psychological one. He had the idea of having to deal well with her in her own personal interest in order to be able, if necessary, to include her politically influential relationships for himself and his practice of law. However, this motive is only convincing internally if he believed in her influence and in the "success" of her influence. This admission of the accused Mimra, according to which he does not want to have said that the bails and donations collected by the accused Novak could be used as bribes, is, however, perfectly refuted after the result of the taking of evidence: he admits first to having been "inwardly convinced" that she would "calculate" part of the bail and donations for her labor management. He also admits that he estimated the cost of his life at 10,000 to 12,000 K per month, which she could not deny from her presumed investment of 6,000 K. It follows from this that he had to expect and expected that her promise to the applicants, if their efforts were unsuccessful, would be refunded to them the sums of money he had paid, could practically not be complied with. If he did not want to support the Novak's fraudulent behaviour, which is likely to be the case after all, he must have said that the sums of money she collected would probably not be used as deposits in the eigential sense, namely as collateral in the event of release. He also knew that in cases of attempted detention, she also demanded "cautions" and called for them as