NAKA accused the employees of the labor office of fraud in the payment of pandemic aid – SME.sk

BRATISLAVA. The judge for the preparatory proceedings of the Specialized Criminal Court took into custody two accused employees of the Labor Office in Pezinok Z.Č., KO

Fear of influencing and fleeing

They are accused of a particularly serious crime of subsidy fraud in the form of complicity. The reason for detention for the accused is the fear of influencing fellow defendants and witnesses, as well as the continuation of criminal activity, ie collusive and preventive detention.

The reason for the escaped detention is also given to the accused KO. The decision is not valid, as the accused have lodged complaints against it, which will be decided by the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic. The prosecutor waived the right to file a complaint.

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Other accused SB and Ľ. K. will be prosecuted at large. ŠTS spokeswoman Katarína Kudjaková informed about it in a press release.

A National Criminal Agency investigator charged them on Wednesday, December 8. As the spokesman reported General Prosecutor’s Office Dalibor Skladan, accused Z. Č., KO, SB and Ľ. K. detained on December 7.

They face 10 to 15 years in prison.

Damage for almost 14 million

Accused as employees of the labor office by mutual agreement and agreement with other hitherto unsettled persons as members of an organized group from March 9, 2021 to July 21, 2021 in 37 cases under the First Aid project processed applications and payment vouchers for various suspicious and non-functional business company.

The Labor Office subsequently unjustifiably paid large financial contributions to cover part of the employer’s wage costs to pre-determined bank accounts.

From there, other unidentified members transferred them to various other bank accounts in the Slovak Republic as well as abroad on the same day as part of the division of tasks without economic reasons, or withdrew them from an ATM.

According to the police, the labor office in Pezinok suffered damage of 13.7 million euros.