Branislav Paška was sentenced to 7 years in prison in the case of the purchase of ultrasounds – PRAVDA.sk

The accused Branislav Paška, nephew of the poor ex-president of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Pavel Paška, was sentenced on Tuesday by the Specialized Criminal Court (ŠTS), Banská Bystrica, in a case of purchasing ultrasounds for the Košice hospital to seven years in prison.

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05.10.2021 13:58, updated: 14:09

Branislav Paška in the archive picture.

The act took place in 2013, when the defendant, as the head of the public procurement department of the Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Košice, was to give priority to the winner of the public tender to the detriment of others by setting the conditions for technical specifications and equipment of four public procurement facilities. selected company and violated the law.

In addition to the discriminatory criteria blamed on the tender by competing companies, the price of the devices was also a problem. The Košice hospital allegedly produced ultrasounds almost twice as expensive and “reimbursed” more than 160,000 euros.

We are updating the report.