Former Slovakian PM Robert Fico faces criminal charges
Date
4/20/2022 6:20:53 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Slovakia's former prime Minister Robert Fico is facing charges
for creating an organised criminal group, Police have said,
Trend reports
citing Euronews .
Fico and his former interior minister Robert Kalinak were
charged on Wednesday and reportedly face up to 10 years in
prison.
The former PM has denied any wrongdoing and dismissed the case
as 'clear Political revenge' in an attempt to 'liquidate the
political opposition'.
Fico is currently an MP for the opposition Smer-Social Democracy
party, while Kalinask is employed as a lawyer.
Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger said he hoped the
autonomous decision to charge Fico and Kalinak was supported by
evidence.
Fico twice served as the country's left-wing populist prime
minister from 2006 to 2010, and again from 2012 to 2018.
He resigned after the 2018 murders of investigative journalist
Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova.
Kuciak had been investigating possible government corruption
when he was killed, and his death prompted unprecedented street
protests and a political crisis that led to the government's
collapse.
The current Slovakian coalition had made the fight against
corruption a key policy issue and a number of senior officials,
police officers, judges, prosecutors, politicians and business
people have been charged with corruption since it took office.
Police so far haven't asked parliament to waive immunity rules
and allow Fico's detention.
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