Renata Vesecká

Who is Renata Vesecká?

Renata Vesecká is the Supreme State Attorney for the Czech Republic.

Vesecká served previously as District State Attorney for Hradec Kralove in eastern Bohemia. She became Acting Supreme State Attorney in 2005, following the recall of the previous incumbent Marie Benesova after several disagreements with justice minister Pavel Nemec. Vesecká was appointed formally to the role on November 9, 2005. On her appointment, Vesecká pledged to concentrate on the handling of bankruptcy, corruption, and terrorism cases, implement investigations into past war crimes, and to increase the number of state attorneys in the state's employ.

In 2009 the opposition Czech Social Democratic Party and the Green Party both demanded that Vesecká leave her post, citing concerns over the failed prosecution of Jiří Čunek, former deputy prime minister and chairman of the KDU-CSL party. Čunek had faced charages of corruption over an alleged 500,000-koruna bribe from the H&B Real Estate company, but his case was thrown out in late 2007. The dismissal of Čunek's case had in turn been criticized by Adam Basny, the District State Attorney for Liberec, whom Vesecká had then fired.