At the same time, the appeals committee overturned Slavia’s sports director Jiří Bílek’s ten-month sentence for violating the regularity of the third league in September 2019. Slavia does not have to pay a fine of a quarter of a million crowns.
The commission also canceled the sentence of the former castle chancellor Vratislav Mynář. Club chairman TJ Osvětimany was initially banned for two years and fined 50,000 crowns for violating the regularity of the first league.
According to the verdict of the ethics commission, in 2018 the then executive director of Dukla, Michal Šrámek, tried to influence the match on the Slovácko pitch and the home duel with Brno through the former vice-chairman of the FAČR, Roman Berber. The commission started proceedings with Dukla, which was relegated to the second league in 2019 and returned to the elite this year, originally due to the possible influence of three duels in the top league.
Bílek received a ten-month ban from football activities and a fine of 30,000 crowns from the ethics commission for violating the regularity of the third-league duel between Slavia’s B-team and the Příbram reserve team in September 2019. According to the commission, he committed a disciplinary offense by supporting former Vyšehrad official Roman Rogoz in influencing the regularity of the match . The Red and Whites won the match 2:1.
However, the appeals commission overturned Bílk’s sentence. Slavia also succeeded in appealing against a fine of a quarter of a million crowns for the club, which was also annulled by the commission.
Mynář, the former chancellor of President Miloš Zeman, was suspected of disrupting the regularity of three first league matches in the spring of 2018, each time during Slovácko’s matches. According to the ethics commission, he encouraged Berbra to influence the matches of the Uhersko-Hradiště club against Bohemians 1905, Zbrojovce Brno and Dukla Prague. Even his punishments do not apply, and the disciplinary proceedings have been stopped by the appeals committee.
All of these cases were connected with the extensive affair surrounding the former vice-chairman of FAČR Berber and the Vyšehrad official Rogoz. In June, he received a four-year conditional sentence and a fine of 400,000 crowns from the Pilsen court. The judge imposed a suspended sentence, a financial penalty and a ban on activity for embezzling money from the Pilsen Regional Football Association. Berbr received no punishment for allegedly influencing matches.
