1st Deputy to Prosecutor General

JUDr. Zdeněk Kasal

Education

1990–-1994 – Grammar school in Znojmo

1994–1999 – Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno

2003 – Faculty of Law of Masaryk University in Brno, Advanced Master’s state examination in the field of substantive and procedural criminal law

Professional Career

9/1999–1/2003 – legal trainee, District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Zlín

10/1999–9/2000 – military lawyer, Czech Army (compulsory milityry service – Military Academy Vyškov, Military Corps Kroměříž)

2/2003–6/2004 –  public prosecutor, Municipal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brno

7/2004–2/2007 – public prosecutor, Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brno

3/2007–12/2008 – head of Economic Crime Division for criminal matters tried in the first instance by Regional Courts, Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brno

1/2009–1/2010 – Deputy to Regional Public Prosecutor for criminal matters tried in the first instance by Regional Court, Regional Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brno

2/2010–3/2025 – Director of Department of Serious Economic and Financial Crime, Prosecutor General’s Office

4/2025 – appointed as 1st Deputy to Prosecutor General

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His specialization is serious economic and property crime; protection of financial interests of the EU, criminal liability of legal entities, detection, property sanctions for perpetrators of criminal offenses, supervision in the public prosecution system. He is a delegate of the OECD Working Group against Bribery in International Business Transactions (since 2011). He has undertaken several foreign study internships: Serious Fraud Office (London, 2012), Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington, D.C., 2013), European Anti-Fraud Office (Brussels, 2013), Eurojust (the Hague, 2013), Direzione Investigativa Antimafia (Rome, 2017).