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Římský will continue serving his sentence, Rýdlová convicted
© AKTU.cz, Jiří Forman Vlastislav Římský, who is serving his sentence in prison for a tax offense related to the illegal production of roll-your-own cigarettes, will remain incarcerated. His request for a 1/3 conditional release was rejected by the Prague 6 court. Římský failed to convince the judge and the prosecutor that he had reformed during his imprisonment. He was the organizer of several fraud schemes as well as the production of roll-your-own cigarettes. His partner was, on Tuesday, convicted by the Prague 2 court for obstructing justice.
Vlastislav Římský is a well-known controversial entrepreneur who defrauded several investors through his development projects. In fact, these projects have become a serious issue that could add more years to his prison sentence.
At the parole hearing, neither the prison director’s intervention nor his participation in a ceramics contest for prisons in Poland with his own ceramic creation made any difference. His attempts to incriminate his accomplices in other cases also failed to help. Neither the judge nor the prosecutor believed that Římský had reformed during his incarceration. Moreover, due to previous convictions, he was ineligible to request early release after serving one-third of his sentence.
His mistress, Nina Rydlova, was non-finally convicted this Tuesday of obstructing justice. The prosecutor even labeled the witnesses who testified in her favor as “perjurers” and made it clear that criminal charges would be filed for false testimony.
In contrast, witnesses deemed credible by the court testified, among other things, that all of the suspiciously acquired assets attributed to Rydlova are held by the Italian company Axel Holding. It is these assets that she is alleged to be protecting from seizure with fraudulent evidence.
The business activities of Římský and Rydlova were also covered in the AKTU news series “Frauds Straight Out of the Nineties.”
You can find all the episodes here:
https://www.aktu.news/6-podvody-jak-z-devadesatek-estrada-pokracuje