The Czech Minister of Justice resigned due to the department's sale of Bitcoin donated by drug dealers, involving nearly $45 million

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 obtained approximately 1 billion Czech koruna (about 45 million USD) by auctioning nearly 500 Bitcoins. Subsequent reports from Czech news media Denik N revealed that these Bitcoins came from the convicted operator of the dark web platform Sheep Marketplace, Tomas Jirikovsky.

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