Department of Serious Economic and Financial Crime
JUDr. Michal Fiala
Director of Department of Serious Economic and Financial Crime
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Public Prosecutors

JUDr. Pavel Bernát, Deputy Department Director

Mgr. et Mgr. Jiří Foral, Ph.D.
Mgr. Rudolf Misák
Mgr. Marek Přichystal

Mgr. Petr Klement (temporarily assigned to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office)
Mg. Pavel Pukovec (temporarily assigned to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office)

Competence of the Department
  • Tasks in criminal proceedings in serious economic and financial crime matters, including criminal activity committed for the benefit of organized crime groups, corruption, and abuse of authority by public officials in the detection and investigation of economic and property crime, criminal activity related to terrorism, violations of international sanctions, and other serious criminal activity (Section 15 of the Regulation stipulating the Rules of Procedure of the Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Supervision over the High Public Prosecutor’s Offices in serious economic and financial crime matters (Section 12d of the Act on Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Deciding on remedial measures (Section 31 (3) of Criminal Procedure Code, Section 146 (2) of Criminal Procedure Code, Section 12a (3) of the Act on Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Preparation of documents for granting or declining a previous consent of Prosecutor General concerning a decision on jurisdiction of a High Public Prosecutor’s Office or a lower Public Prosecutor’s Office (Section 15 (4) through 6 of the Regulation stipulating the Rules of Procedure of the Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Deciding on withdrawal and assignment of cases (Section 25 of Criminal Procedure Code per analogiam, Section 12a (2) of the Act on Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Resolution of jurisdiction disputes between Public Prosecutor’s Offices (Section 12a (1) of the Act on Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Review of final and effective decisions on discontinuation of criminal prosecution or on transfer of criminal cases and preparation of documents for decisions of Prosecutor General in such cases (Section 174a of Criminal Procedure Code)
  • Keeping records of decisions of Prosecutor General ordering the review of closed cases, including the record of any possible incentives for such decisions, reviewing closed cases, or as the case may be, performing tasks pertaining to the Prosecutor General’s Office, if the performing the review was ordered to another Public Prosecutor’s Office (Section 12 (3) of the Act on Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Tasks for the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in accordance with Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 of 12 October 2017 implementing enhanced cooperation for the establishment of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, including the resolution of conflicts of jurisdiction between the public prosecution and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
  • In the area of the protection of the financial interests of the European Union, ensures communication with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and ensures the performance of tasks in this area in relation to lower public prosecutor’s offices

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