PANews reported on May 31 that according to Cryptoslate, Czech Justice Minister Pavel Blažek announced his resignation on May 30 after his Ministry of Justice sold 480 bitcoins (worth about $45 million) donated by a drug trafficker. After receiving the bitcoins, the Ministry of Justice immediately cashed in the money and used the proceeds for the victim compensation fund and prison equipment. The donation has caused opposition lawmakers to question the legitimacy of accepting assets donated by former criminals. In addition, the police have launched an investigation into the source of these bitcoins and the specific circumstances of the Ministry of Justice accepting these bitcoins.

A few hours after the investigation began, Pavel Blažek decided to resign from his term, which began in December 2021. "In agreement with Prime Minister Peter Fiala, I have decided to resign as Minister of Justice. I have not done anything illegal. However, I do not want to damage the reputation of the government or the ruling coalition," he said in a post on May 30.

The donation was made in Bitcoin by drug trafficking criminal Tomasz Jizhikovsky, who was arrested in 2016 for running an illegal online drug and pharmaceutical marketplace and later served a four-year prison sentence for embezzlement and drug trafficking.