Prague, Oct 6 (CTK) – Presidential Office head Vratislav Mynar will appeal the decision of the National Security Office (NBU) not to grant him a security vetting, President Milos Zeman said in an interview with CTK Tuesday.
He indicated that he would dismiss Mynas only after he failed with all appeals.
Zeman also pointed out that the civilian counter-intelligence service (BIS) had issued a positive stance on Mynar.
The NBU refused to issue a security vetting of a strictly confidential level to Mynar in late September.
He said he would probably appeal the NBU’s decision.
“As far as I know he will file it [appeal] tomorrow [on Wednesday] before flying to the meeting of the Visegrad Four presidents with me,” Zeman told CTK.
The Visegrad Group (V4) is comprised of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
“I will wait for his appeal since every citizen of the Czech Republic has the right to appeal and I will make up my mind accordingly,” Zeman added.
If he failed, Mynar can also file a cassation complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court, but it would not postpone the effect of the NBU’s decision.
According to media, the courts’ decision-making would take long, so Mynar might keep the post until the end of Zeman’s five-years term in office, that is until 2018.
Zeman said previously Mynar can always have a respectable post in the Presidential Office even without a security vetting.
Mynar asked for the vetting in 2013 and the process was launched a year later.
The reasons for the NBU’s decision are not known.
However, speculations have emerged saying some of Mynar’s business contacts might be an obstacle as well as his dubious purchase of a villa in the Prague-Strasnice neighbourhood for an allegedly too low price. Mynar dismissed it in the past.
