Tibor Gaspar et al. heading for freedom. The judge rejected the request for extension of detention – TVNOVINY.sk

A judge of the Specialized Criminal Court rejected the extension of detention for ex-police officer Tibor Gašpar in the Purgatory case.

At the hearing, the prosecutor of the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Office he used a recording from the cottage as new evidence to extend detention.

The judge had the same attitude towards extending the detention of former NAKA chief Peter Hrašek, former director of the anti-corruption unit Róbert Krajmer, as well as former police officers Marián Zetoch and Milan Mihálik.

The deadline is that they should be in custody on November 5. The prosecutor filed a complaint against the decision, which must be decided by the Supreme Court by this deadline.

“The motion submitted by the prosecutor’s office at this stage of the proceedings was not granted to the judge for the preparatory proceedings. However, I made an appeal and lodged a complaint against all the statements concerning the non-compliant proposals. In the near future, they will be decided by the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, “said ÚŠP Prosecutor Michal Šúrek.

The proposal to extend the detention also included transcripts of video-audio recordings, which are to confirm the efforts of several people from the environment of politics, business and advocacy to influence the prosecution of the most serious criminal cases. Subsequently, videos were mediated with the chairman of Smer-SD Robert Fico, former Minister of the Interior Robert Kaliňák, lawyer Marek Par, businessman Miroslav Bödör and son Tibor Gašpar at the hunting lodge.

VIDEO: The camera captured the interviews of Fico, Kaliňák, Bödör st. a Paru

According to Gašpar’s legal representative Marek Par, the judge for the preparatory proceedings of ŠTS also dealt with the transcription of the mentioned video-audio recordings. He made it clear that, according to the court, he had disciplinary responsibility as a lawyer and not as an accused. He also added that the recordings were handed over to the media, but not to the court, which he considers absurd.

Tibor Gašpar was detained as part of last year’s NAKA Očistec operation together with other former high-ranking police officials. Among them were, for example, the director of the anti-corruption unit Róbert Krajmer, the former head of the NAKA Peter Hraško, the former head of the national unit of the financial police Bernard Slobodník and others.

The police also recorded how Kaliňák was instructed for questioning in front of an investigator

The case involved charges for the crime of establishing, conspiring and supporting a criminal group, abuse of power by a public official and the crime of corruption.