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Proceedings have been launched against the former Slovak prime minister and interior minister
Bratislava – According to Robert Fico, this is a politically motivated revenge aimed at making the leader of the strongest opposition party impossible.
A special unit of the Slovak police, Robert Kalico, the former Slovak Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the National Law Enforcement Agency (NAKA), has been prosecuted by the Slovak Public Service News Agency TASR, citing a spokesman for the National Police Headquarters.
The initiation of the proceedings was first reported by the Slovak liberal news portal Denník N, which said it had initiated the proceedings against the police on charges of setting up a criminal association.
According to the special prosecutor’s office supervising the case, in total
proceedings were instituted against four persons for misuse of official powers and breach of tax secrecy in connection with the establishment of a criminal association.
According to the prosecutor’s office, no further information could be disclosed due to the ongoing investigation into the case.
Robert Fico, chairman of the Sver-SD, the strongest opposition party in the Slovak parliament, said in a press conference in response to the start of the process that it was a politically motivated revenge aimed at making the leader of the strongest opposition party impossible. He believed that the present case was already the fourth in which NAKA had initiated proceedings against him “out of political motives”.
Robert Fico said he was being prosecuted because he had “spoken out loudly” during the prime minister’s presidency of Igor Matovic, the president of the current strongest ruling party, the People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO), and Andrej Kiska.
The Slovak prosecutor’s office charged Andrej Kiska a week ago. He is accused of illegally accounting for expenses incurred during the 2014 presidential election during the 2014 presidential election by the family-owned KTAG (Kiska Travel Agency), where he was a former political executive.