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Constitutional Court: Meciar's Amnesties Can Be Scrapped

Constitutional Court: Meciar's Amnesties Can Be Scrapped

Kosice, May 31 (TASR) – The Constitutional Court at a session behind closed doors on Wednesday ruled that the amnesties issued by Vladimir Meciar as acting president in 1998 as well as the pardon granted by former president Michal Kovac [1993-98] to his own son in 1997 can be scrapped in

Fico: Repression Must Take More Serious Role in Fighting Corruption

Fico: Repression Must Take More Serious Role in Fighting Corruption

Bratislava, May 30 (TASR) – Prevention in terms of combating corruption needs to be accompanied more significantly with repression, stated Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) at a seminar on corruption whistleblowers in Bratislava on Tuesday with Police President Tibor Gaspar in attendance. Fico told the participants that stricter measures have to

EuroGas Intends to Raise Alleged Attempted Patent Fraud in Arbitration

EuroGas Intends to Raise Alleged Attempted Patent Fraud in Arbitration

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) – EuroGas, which is in arbitration proceedings with Slovakia concerning the allegedly illegal withdrawal of a licence for talc mining in Gemerska Poloma (Kosice region), claims that it faced attempted patent fraud, EuroGas managing board chairman Wolfgang Rauball told TASR on Friday. EuroGas’s subsidiary Rozmin filed

Kalinak: Information from Slovakia Helped Foil Terror Attack in Denmark

Kalinak: Information from Slovakia Helped Foil Terror Attack in Denmark

Bratislava, May 25 (TASR) – Information provided by the Slovak authorities has helped to prevent several terrorist attacks abroad, said Interior Minister Robert Kalinak on Radio Expres’s ‘Brano Zavodsky Nazivo’ talk show on Thursday. “Most recently, information that we provided helped lead to the arrest of people suspected of planning

Fake Police Officer Attempts to Collect Fine on R1 Expressway

Fake Police Officer Attempts to Collect Fine on R1 Expressway

Nitra, May 18 (TASR) – A fake police officer attempted to collect a fine for a supposed misdemeanour on the R1 expressway near Nitra on Thursday, TASR learnt from Nitra regional police directorate spokesperson Renata Cuhakova on the same day. Driving a VW Passat with flashing lights behind the front windscreen,

Slovak Police to Tighten Screw on Internet Criminals

Slovak Police to Tighten Screw on Internet Criminals

Bratislava, May 6 (TASR) – The Slovak police have allocated more officers to the department combating cyber crime in order to facilitate the monitoring of the internet and actively enter illegal activities to tighten the screw on internet criminals, Police Corps president Tibor Gaspar has announced. Meanwhile, the cyber crime police

Police Search for Man Who Robbed Bank at Gunpoint in Bratislava

Police Search for Man Who Robbed Bank at Gunpoint in Bratislava

Bratislava, April 30 (TASR) – Police are searching for a man who robbed a bank in the Aupark shopping mall in the Bratislava borough of Petrzalka on Saturday evening, TASR learnt from spokesperson for the Regional Police Corps Directorate Lucia Mihalikova on Sunday. The heist netted at least some €50,000