The year 2022 will be marked by the courts: Gašpar or Kotleba could hear the verdict! The murder of Kuciak – Topka is also returning

In 2020, several prominent people ended up in custody. During the storm, the National Criminal Agency detained not only several judges, but also former state secretary and ex-judge Monika Jankovská. Norbert Bödör, a businessman from Nitra, as well as former police chief Tibor Gašpar and special prosecutor Dušan Kováčik, also ended up in custody.

Already at the end of February, the Cattle case will be transferred to the Specialized Criminal Court. This is a large-scale corruption scheme when distributing subsidies through the Agricultural Paying Agency. Norbert Bödör is one of the accused. The indictment is also filed in the case of Purgatory, which includes Tibor Gašpar and Dušan Kováčik.

Murder of Kuciak

In the new year, the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová should come to court again. In February 2018, they were found shot dead in their house in Veľká Mača. Cousins ​​Miroslav Marček and Tomáš Szabó and Zoltán Andruskó as mediators are convicted in the case. Other defendants were businessman Marian Kočner and his heron Alena Zsuzsová.

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The Senate of the Specialized Criminal Court, led by Alena Zsuzsová, acquitted Zsuzs and Kočner from the indictment in September 2020. The case went to the Supreme Court, which decided to return it to the Specialized Criminal Court.

Boiler checks

Judge of the Specialized Criminal Court Ružena Sabová ruled that Marian Kotleba was guilty of controversial checks. Sabová sentenced the chairman of ĽSNS to four years and four months in October 2020. Kotleba appealed to the Supreme Court. However, he did not set out a hearing even after more than a year.

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Marian Kotleba is being prosecuted at large. He claimed that the amount on the checks had nothing to do with extremist symbolism. However, this is questionable given the history of the People’s Party of our Slovakia, its members, as well as Kotleb itself. If the Supreme Court condemned Kotleb, it would lose its parliamentary mandate.

Kováčik at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will also deal with the case of former special prosecutor Dušan Kováčik. This has already been sentenced by the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok to 14 years in prison and confiscation of property. Kováčik appealed to the Supreme Court.

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Kováčik is accused of having taken from the mafia 50,000 euros for the fact that the former head of such people, Ľubomír Kudlička, was released from custody. According to self-judge Pamela Záleská, he abused his position and instead of fighting criminals, he himself became one of them.

Former colleagues will also be tried

The actors of the Búrka case should also appear in court. Probably the most famous of them is the former state secretary and ex-judge Monika Jankovská. She was initially in custody for half a year, then ended up in psychiatry when she attempted suicide. Jankovská was eventually released and has a monitoring bracelet on her leg. She first denied the allegations, but later confessed to most of them.

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Among the accused was Jankovska’s sister Andrea Haitová, former president of the Regional Court in Bratislava Ľuboš Sádovský and also former president of the District Court Bratislava III David Lindtner. Other defendants were Judge Denisa Cviková, Judge Richard Molnár, Eugen Pálšthy and Judges Mirian Repáková and Zuzana Maruniaková.