Czech President Petr Pavel received a fine of 60,000 CZK from the Office for Supervision of the Leadership of Political Parties and Political Movements, Ceske noviny reports..

According to Ian Oatley, a spokesman for the Office, Pavel was fined for not being transparent about donor data in the presidential campaign.. In the list of donors of the newly elected president, data on their place of residence and date of birth were very often missing. According to Pavel, this is not about lack of transparency, but about the lack of data: if the donor does not provide them, there is no way to get them.

According to the rules, the list of sponsors should include the name, surname, date of birth and place of residence of the donor. However, according to Outle, these lines in the list of sponsors of Pavel's campaign are almost empty..

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The volume of donations of persons without the necessary data is still unknown. By law, the amount of donated amounts is not required to be published in the list of sponsors.. They will only become known from the campaign finance report.. The deadline for submission is May 2.

Pavel notes the lack of leverage on those sponsors who did not want to provide this or that information about themselves and added that "

Apart from Pavel, not a single person has received a fine of 60,000 kroons from the supervisory authority. The previous highest sanction imposed by the supervisory authority on an individual was 40,000 kroons.

Former Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, who was also fined for failing to publish campaign donor data for the 2018 Senate elections and for failing to submit a campaign finance report within the legal deadline, received such a fine..

The second person fined 40,000 kroons was Pawel Zytko, who, like Petr Pavel, made mistakes in the campaign in the current presidential elections, due to which the Ministry of the Interior did not even allow Zytko to run for the presidential elections.

Pavel was fined before he took office, so presidential immunity did not apply to him..

It is reported that the President paid the fine on Monday, March 13.

Petr Pavel won the presidential elections in January this year. He won 58.32% of the vote, his rival Andrei Babish - 41.67%. More than 3.3 million people voted for Pavel, 2.4 million for Babish. Retired general replaces Milos Zeman as president. On March 9, he officially entered his five-year term..

In 2019, presidential candidate, showman Vladimir Zelensky was fined for deliberately violating the secrecy of the vote - he was photographed with a completed ballot paper after voting in the second round of the presidential election..

In the same year, a New York court ordered US President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to a number of charities as a fine for abusing his own charitable foundation, the funds of which were used by Trump for personal political and business interests..

French President Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial in 2021 on charges of illegally funding his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign..