The Czech Minister of Justice chose to resign after the department accepted a $45 million BTC donation

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blazek has announced his resignation on May 30 due to controversy over his department's sale of Bitcoin donated by a convicted criminal.

The Ministry of Justice previously announced on social media platform X that it had raised approximately 1 billion Czech koruna (about 45 million USD) by auctioning nearly 500 BTC. Subsequently, Czech news media Denik N discovered that these BTC came from Tomas Jirikovsky, the operator of the convicted dark web platform Sheep Marketplace.

In March of this year, Jirikovsky's lawyer proposed donating one-third of the BTC to Blazek, but Blazek accepted the donation without fully investigating the source of the funds. The police are currently investigating the source of this BTC.