English Translation

23. He had already clarified the case to such an extent that he was ready to be transferred to the district court when he was called by the defendant N e č a s e k, who ordered in his office, on the basis of a previous audition of the perpetrator, that the transfer to the court had to be omitted. The witness's objections were rejected by the defendant with the remark that it could bring an important case, with high-ranking Czech circles having a feeling, as a confidentiality, and that the legal provisions had to be interpreted expediently, On a day which could no longer be determined, but every time around the clumsy time, the defendant gave the witness Kon o p o va, which was presented in his office and described to him her plight, an amount of 200,--- crowns against receipt from Confidential Money. In these cases, too, the defendant denies that the indictment of a crime of favour in the office pursuant to § 346 StGB and the commission of an offence of embezzlement pursuant to section 350 StGB, is liable to have failed to comply with the legal provisions. He explained the following: "The witness K o n o p o v a had once stopped him avf the road in 1940 and told him that she could give him an important fingering time in a big shift involving a certain K o d e t. He had replied that the road was not suitable for the treatment of such things and that she should come to his office. In fact, it had also appeared and had declared that K c d e t had committed major foreign exchange displacements, and had, among other things, hidden gold, foreign exchange, etc., that he had passed this information on to other information to the criminal department, which had immediately taken the handling of the case into its hands and had detected and seized very large misplaced assets. K o d e t was then also sentenced to four Jahven penitentiary, with regard to the essential and decisive services that the witness had rendered to him in this matter, and with respect to her close relations with him,