Prague - No one is to be charged due to the increased costs of the construction of the Brno judicial palace. The anti-corruption police have concluded that no suspicion of a criminal offense has been confirmed in the case. The Ministry of Finance is to investigate the matter with suspicion of an administrative offense of breaching fiscal discipline. Irena Válová, spokesperson for the Prague High State Prosecutor's Office, told ČTK today. According to her, the Ministry of Finance has not yet received the police decision, as it is still to be reviewed by the supervising state prosecutor. The cost of constructing the palace increased by more than one billion crowns, with a criminal complaint lodged last August by František Dohnal, the President of the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ). "Because the funding source for the construction of the Judicial Palace in Brno was 100 percent from the state budget and because the originally planned costs increased in the case, the police authority is hereby handing the matter over to the competence of the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic and its tax authorities," Válová stated regarding the police decision. The NKÚ discovered last year that mistakes and deficiencies by the Regional Court in Brno during the project management of the Judicial Palace's construction and the incoherent and inconsistent control activity of the Ministry of Justice caused the expected costs of 786 million crowns to rise to more than two billion crowns. "It was not confirmed, for example, the speculation in the press that invoiced work had not been carried out," Válová said today to ČTK.
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