CURRENT Another decision in the bill of exchange case: Kočner’s friend Štefan Ágh is guilty! – Topky.sk

Štefan Ágh also attended a hearing with Marian Kočner and Pavel Rusk as a public

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A specialized criminal court in Pezinok ruled on Kočner’s friend Štefan Ágh in a case of television bills. He found him guilty and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. The verdict is not final, Ágh can appeal. You didn’t come to hear him personally.

The prosecution in this matter was filed by Ján Šanta, the prosecutor of the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (ÚŠP) on June 22 last year. The defendant has so far denied his guilt. ŠTS ended the evidence in the case of September 28. Written evidence proposed by Prosecutor Šanta as well as Defendant’s lawyer Štefan Neszméry was read. It was supposed to be evidence – secret reports of the Slovak Information Service (SIS) on the existence of bills of exchange.

An expert from the Criminalistics and Expertise Institute of the Police Force of the Slovak Republic also testified. The public was excluded from reading documents. Subsequently, on 29 September, the defendant, his lawyer and prosecutor Šanta, as well as the legal representatives of TV Markíza, delivered their closing remarks. Šanta proposed Štefan Ágh 14 years in prison.

The sentence should be served, as suggested by the prosecutor in his closing remarks, in an institution with a medium level of guarding. He suggested that the court find him guilty of a particularly serious crime of counterfeiting, falsifying and unauthorized production of money and securities by complicity. At the same time, he proposed to the court to impose on him a sentence of 5,000 euros and protective supervision.

Shanta emphasized that the level of culpability of the defendant was incomparably lower than that of convicted businessman Marian Kočner and former TV director Markíz Pavel Ruska in the bill of exchange case. Several former directors of TV Markíza and other witnesses testified in the case. The defendant denies the guilt and claims that he did not forge any bills of exchange in the amount of 34.5 million euros and they are genuine.

In the past, he appeared as an accused in a case in which in January the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic validly sentenced Russia and Kočner to 19 years in prison. Štefan Ágh, who was referred to in the Gamatex case as Kočner’s right hand man, was finally expelled for independent proceedings. During the trial with the convicted couple, he testified as a witness in July 2019.