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Lucansky Vexed That Vadala's Phone Wasn't Properly Analysed in 2018

Lucansky Vexed That Vadala's Phone Wasn't Properly Analysed in 2018

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – Police Corps President Milan Lucansky has expressed his dismay at the fact that an elite police team didn’t properly analyse the mobile phone of Italian drug-trafficker Antonino Vadala when it seized the device in 2018 shortly after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak, the police

Constitutional Court Suspends Force of Part of Telecommunications Act

Constitutional Court Suspends Force of Part of Telecommunications Act

Kosice, May 13 (TASR) – The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday to suspend the effectiveness of part of the amendment to the Telecommunications Act, which in connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak enabled access by the Public Health Authority (UVZ) to data from telecommunications operators, TASR learnt on Wednesday. The court’

Mamojka Resigns as Constitutional Court Judge

Mamojka Resigns as Constitutional Court Judge

Kosice, May 13 (TASR) – Constitutional Court judge Mojmir Mamojka is giving up his post, the Constitutional Court Office announced on Wednesday, adding that Constitutional Court chairman Ivan Fiacan will comment on the matter for journalists in the afternoon. Fiacan was considering whether or not to file a proposal to launch

Police Fine Man €1,000 for Refusing to Put On Face Mask in Car in Bratislava

Police Fine Man €1,000 for Refusing to Put On Face Mask in Car in Bratislava

Bratislava, May 12 (TASR) – The police fined a man €1,000 for not heeding their call to put on a face mask in a car stopped for a road check in Bratislava in the wee hours of Tuesday, it was reported on the police’s Facebook page on the same

Judicial Council Elected Sikuta as Supreme Court Chair, He Waits for Appointment

Judicial Council Elected Sikuta as Supreme Court Chair, He Waits for Appointment

Bratislava, May 11 (TASR) – The Judicial Council elected Jan Sikuta as Supreme Court chair, however, in order to become one, he must be appointed by President Zuzana Caputova, TASR learnt on Monday. Sikuta received 12 out of 17 votes in a public election. No one voted for his opponent Ivan

Matovic: Mafia Cowers in Fear at Possibility of Lipsic Becoming Top Prosecutor

Matovic: Mafia Cowers in Fear at Possibility of Lipsic Becoming Top Prosecutor

Bratislava, May 7 (TASR) – The [political] mafia fears greatly that Daniel Lipsic might “go for its throat” if elected the next Prosecutor-General, Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) declared after a session of the Government on Thursday. Matovic replied this way to the question posed by journalists as to whether the

President Appoints New District Court Judges, Appeals for Their Independence

President Appoints New District Court Judges, Appeals for Their Independence

Bratislava, May 5 (TASR) – President Zuzana Caputova appointed six new district court judges in Kosice, Trebisov (Kosice region) and Nove Zamky (Nitra region) on Tuesday. In her speech Caputova appealed for judicial independence, which she doesn’t view as a private right of judges but a constitutional right of citizens.