Ivo Svoboda (politician)

Ivo Svoboda (6 April 1948 – 23 February 2017) was a Czech politician and economist who served as 3rd Finance Minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 1999 in government of Prime Minister Miloš Zeman. He became the first government minister of the Czech Republic to be imprisoned: he was handed a five-year jail term in 2005 and served three years of the sentence.

Ivo Svoboda
3rd Minister of Finance
In office
22 July 1998  20 July 1999
Prime MinisterMiloš Zeman
Preceded byIvan Pilip
Succeeded byPavel Mertlík
Personal details
Born(1948-04-06)6 April 1948
Czechoslovakia
Died23 February 2017(2017-02-23) (aged 68)
Czech Republic
Political partySocial Democratic Party
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