Judge rejects allegations of corruption against Kováčik and Košč – SME.sk

BRATISLAVA. The specialized criminal court rejected the indictment on suspicion of corruption against former special prosecutor Dušan Kováčik and former member of the Slovak Information Service Peter Košč, who is known as “Mr. X”.

As the news portal of the television Joj noviny.sk informs, Judge Michal Truban explains in an 18-page reason why he did so. He points to procedural errors and also to the fact that in the case of both accused, it is still not decided to proceed according to the well-known section 363 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

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The judge returned the indictment to a special prosecutor, who can still file a complaint against the decision.

Former member SIS Košča, who is on the run and in a police search, was accused of bribing Dušan Kováčik in the amount of 50,000 euros, as testified by the penitent Bernard Slobodník.

‘These were serious procedural errors which had a direct effect on the exercise of the rights of the defense. There is a deadline for a decision on the proposal under section 363, so the question will now be how Prosecutor General ‘s Office The Slovak Republic will react to this fact that the accusation was rejected, “Kováčik’s lawyer Erik Magál explained.