In 2012, a court in Ostrava found that Wolf had defrauded the Ministry of the Environment, claiming that he had received subsidies based on false and misleading information. Between 2005 and 2007, he and his wife drew 11 million crowns for two projects.
He used part of the money for his own expenses, and plans were copied from the Internet. The court sentenced Wolf to five years in prison and a fine of one million crowns. The High Court in Olomouc increased Wolf’s sentence to six years and a fine of five million crowns.
A European arrest warrant was issued for Wolff in February 2013, and an international arrest warrant was issued in April. Wolf’s wife was given a three-year suspended sentence and a fine of one million crowns. He and his wife paid the fine in installments. Even when he was already absconding, money was coming into the court account. They were paid by the refugee’s wife.
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Even before the search was announced, Wolfe had already complained that his right to a fair trial had been violated. But the Constitutional Court rejected his complaint, and the politician failed even with a request for mercy – a request submitted by Wolf’s relative was rejected by the Ministry of Justice.
In June 2015, Wolff told Prima TV that he could not defend himself from prison. A wolf in big sunglasses and a beard interviewed him via tablet.
In January 2018, the Novinky.cz server reported that, according to the police, the wolf had left its last trace in South America, and in 2019, the police reported finding wolves in the South American country of Paraguay. However, the local police have not yet taken any action to arrest him. Since then, there has been no official word on his whereabouts.
“They’re looking in every way. But it’s hard to find someone with enough evidence, and in a country that doesn’t have an agreement and cooperation with the Czech Republic,” said Judge Miroslav Mucha of the Regional Court in Ostrava, who recently sent Wolf to prison.
Wolf In 2006 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the ČSSD. He later left the party and occasionally voted with Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek’s government coalition from ODS. He was an MP till 2010. Already in October 2009, the police asked the House of Representatives to extradite Wolff for trial on suspicion of loan fraud and copyright infringement.
In November of the same year, the lower house exiled Wolf and the police opened a criminal investigation against him. He was charged in February 2010. He now faces an additional two years in prison on top of his original sentence for obstructing the execution of an official decision.
Wolf said in 2008 that he had received anonymous death threats for his support of ODS:
