The Czech government has weathered a political storm this week, surviving a no-confidence vote triggered by a $45 million bitcoin payment from a convicted criminal.
The scandal has rocked Prime Minister Petr Fiala’s administration months before national elections, Reuters reports.
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The payment of 468 bitcoin was made to the state by a man previously jailed for running a darknet drug marketplace called Sheep Marketplace.
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