Emotions run high in lower house as MPs accuse deputy prime minister of treason
MPs met behind closed doors on Tuesday to debate allegations that Czech Deputy Prime Minister Jan Hamáček had planned a trip to Russia aiming to hush up the involvement of Russian agents in the 2014 Vrbětice explosions in return for one million Sputnik V vaccines and the right to host a US-American summit in Prague. Seznam.cz made the claim on Tuesday citing several independent sources and linking the story to Jan Hamáček’s planned visit to Russia which was cancelled just hours before the Vrbětice scandal broke. The opposition parties have branded the deputy prime minister a traitor a...