Police will demand that the accused Prime Minister Robert Fico be prosecuted in custody. This follows from the statement of the police president Štefan Hamran, about which the Postoj portal informed. This information was also confirmed by the police on Facebook. Just yesterday, a National Criminal Agency investigator sent file material to process a complaint requesting a motion to prosecute the accused Robert Fico. “Today, on April 21, the investigator of the National Criminal Agency processed the motion to bring the accused RK into custody due to a legitimate fear that he would act on witnesses, experts, co-defendants or otherwise frustrate the clarification of the facts relevant to the prosecution,” police said. According to the constitution, the head of Smer-SD, who is a member of the parliament, cannot be sent into custody by the court without the consent of the National Council. The relevant proposal would have to be submitted to Parliament by the Attorney General. Fico has previously called his prosecution political revenge. Several crimes The police have accused Fico and former Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák of several crimes, including abuse of power and the establishment and support of a criminal group. He suspects them, among other things, that at the time they were in power, they abused the police and the financial administration to discredit political opponents, including former President Andrei Kisk and current Finance Minister Igor Matovic. Members generally do not have immunity from prosecution; they cannot be charged only for voting and for statements made in parliament and its bodies. “This is pure political revenge, it is a pure attempt to liquidate the chairman of the strongest opposition parliamentary party,” Fico said in a statement. Along with Fico and his party colleague Kaliňák, former police president Tibor Gašpar and a businessman with ties to Smer-SD representatives Norbert Bödör have now been charged. Gašpar and Bödör have been prosecuted for a long time in a case of suspected police abuse. After accusing Fico and Kaliňák, the police managed to connect this case with the top of Smer-SD. Kiska and Matovic’s injuries Among the victims in Fico’s and Kaliňák’s case, according to the police, are mainly Kiska and Matovic, whose Movement of Ordinary People and Independents in 2020 convincingly won the parliamentary elections. They ended up defeating Smer-SD and leaving the opposition. From the position of the president, Kiska defined himself towards Smer-SD, and Matovič has long been a strong critic of the Social Democrats. The police rely, for example, on the statements of former leading representatives of the financial administration regarding the requirements for discrediting Kisk and Matovič in connection with their business. In the past, Fico described Kiska and Matovič as tax fraudsters, and non-public information about Kisk’s company also leaked to the media. These concerned a possible tax offense of Kiska’s company in connection with the financing of its campaign before the presidential election in 2014, in which Kiska defeated Fica. The prosecutor’s office in the tax case filed a charge in Kiska last week, the ex-president has described the case in the past as revenge from Fico. Former three-time Slovak Prime Minister Fico has long criticized the prosecution of former senior officials, former judiciaries and others who had previously been charged in several waves of arrests. Slovakia experienced them after the last elections. Fico also verbally attacked elite police investigators, prosecutors and some judges. Smer-SD was in power first in 2006-2010 and then in 2012-2020, of which he ruled alone for four years.