Former MP Gets Extra Year in Prison for Fleeing to Paraguay

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Former ČSSD MP Petr Wolf heard his sentence in court on Monday morning. The District Court in Ostrava decided that he would go to prison for a year for avoiding a six-year sentence for subsidy fraud and fleeing to Paraguay. He faced up to two years in prison for obstructing the execution of an official decision and deportation. The sentence is final, and neither party appealed.

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Former ČSSD (now SOCDEM) MP Petr Wolf was sentenced to one year in prison by the Ostrava District Court for avoiding a six-year prison sentence for subsidy fraud and fleeing to Paraguay. He could have received up to two additional years in prison for obstructing the execution of an official decision and deportation. Wolf pleaded guilty and said he regretted the act.

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Petr Wolf, a former MP from Ostrava for ČSSD, who was sent to prison for six years by the courts for subsidy fraud in 2012, avoided joining for years. Now he has received an additional 12 months of imprisonment for obstructing the execution of an official decision -- unconditionally. He heard the verdict in person on Monday morning at the District Court in Ostrava, where he was transported by an escort from Litoměřice prison.

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Former ČSSD (now SOCDEM) MP Petr Wolf hid from prison for 12 years in Paraguay. He escaped to avoid serving six years for subsidy fraud. Now he has appeared before the District Court in Ostrava, which has "sentenced" him to another year in prison.