Ex-Czech Justice Minister Charged Over Bitcoin Donation Scandal Former Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek has been charged amid an ongoing criminal investigation into a controversial bitcoin donation accepted by the Ministry of Justice during the previous administration. Detectives from the National Headquarters for Organized Crime launched criminal proceedings on Monday against three more people linked to the case, prosecutors said. The newly charged suspects are Blažek, a senior figure in the Civic Democratic Party, his former deputy Radomír Daňhel, and Brno lawyer Kárim Titz, who represented programmer Tomáš Jiřikovský, the man who donated the bitcoins to the state.