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NAKA Charges Former PPA Director and Slavia Capital Financier with Corruption

NAKA Charges Former PPA Director and Slavia Capital Financier with Corruption

Bratislava, April 23 (TASR) – Former director of the Agriculture Payment Agency (PPA) Juraj K. and financier of Slavia Capital financial group Martin K. have been charged with accepting bribes totalling almost €1 million in connection with PPA’s allocation of subsidies, the police have reported on their website. “The total

Interior Ministry's Anna Bilecova Offering to Take Lie Detector Test

Interior Ministry's Anna Bilecova Offering to Take Lie Detector Test

Bratislava, April 22 (TASR) – Interior Ministry’s chief of staff Anna Bilecova proposed to ministry’s state secretary Lukas Kyselica that she can take a lie detector test in the face of allegations suggesting her involvement in a tax fraud scheme, TASR learnt from ministry spokesperson Barbara Turosova on Wednesday.

Seliga: Main Job of Gov't Is to Change Election of Prosecutor-General

Seliga: Main Job of Gov't Is to Change Election of Prosecutor-General

Bratislava, April 22 (TASR) – If the new government, now in office for a month, doesn’t succeed with anything else than changing the way of how prosecutor-general is elected, it will have nevertheless accomplished its fundamental mission, said Parliamentary Vice-chairman Juraj Seliga (For the People) during a debate in the

Ciznar Agrees With Proposal to Remand Kajetan K. in Custody

Ciznar Agrees With Proposal to Remand Kajetan K. in Custody

Bratislava, April 22 (TASR) – Prosecutor-General Jaromir Ciznar agreed with the proposal of the prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (USP) who submitted to him a request to issue an agreement to remand the former head of the State Material Reserves Administration (SSHR), for legal reasons identified only as Kajetan

Chief Hygienist: Elderly Banned from Shopping Outside Special Hours

Chief Hygienist: Elderly Banned from Shopping Outside Special Hours

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – The government-imposed special shopping hours for the elderly, now shortened by an hour to 9-11 a.m. on work days, mean that people aged 65 and more are forbidden to shop at any other time, said Slovakia’s chief hygienist Jan Mikas after a meeting of

Caputova: Our Lives to Be More Similar to Those before Crisis as of Wednesday

Caputova: Our Lives to Be More Similar to Those before Crisis as of Wednesday

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – President Zuzana Caputova welcomes the fact that following several weeks of strict safety measures related to the coronavirus outbreak, Slovakia already knows the outlines of their gradual easing. The head of the country posted this on a social network in reaction to the phases of loosening

NAKA Carrying Out Raid in Central Slovakia in Relation to Corruption in SSHR

NAKA Carrying Out Raid in Central Slovakia in Relation to Corruption in SSHR

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – The National Crime Agency (NAKA) has been active in Zilina and Banska Bystrica regions since the early morning on Tuesday as part of an operation codenamed ‘Reserves in Central Slovakia’, carrying out detaining activities in connection with corruption offences from the environment of the State Material