Posted on 10/15/2019 8:38:30 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Slovakia has been shaken by a recording from 2014, which attests that the former Prosecutor General Dobroslav Trnka was corrupt and intimidated by the controversial businessman Marian Kocner.
Trnka is still a prosecutor at the Office of the General Prosecutor, while Kocner is being detained over allegations of large-scale financial frauds and the 2018 contract killing of the journalist Jan Kuciak. The recording was released on Monday (14 October) by the daily Dennik N and came allegedly from Kocner’s cell phone confiscated by the police.
In the 70-minute conversation, the businessman treats prosecutor Trnka as his subordinate and issued death threats against him. The reason is that after his mandate as Prosecutor General ended in 2011, Trnka attempted to blackmail Jaroslav Hascak, the CEO of the oligarchic group Penta, with the recording of the eavesdropping known in Slovakia as ‘Gorilla’. Gorilla is supposed to prove that Penta corrupted public officials in the 2000s.
In the recording published on Monday, Kocner says Hascak already paid him for the original of the recording of Gorilla. Albeit still ongoing, the investigation of Gorilla has never made it to the courts. Hascak has denied he purchased the Gorilla recording and keeps questioning its authenticity.
Although Trnka and Kocner are known to be historical allies of the ruling Smer-SD, the party’s Chair and former Prime Minister Robert Fico insisted on Monday that the “Smer-SD has nothing to do with Gorilla”. But Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, Vice-Chair of Smer-SD, proposed on Monday to change the law so that it allows to hold individual prosecutors more accountable and to curb the competences of the Prosecutor General.
The current Prosecutor General Jaromir Ciznar has said he cannot force Trnka to resign from the prosecutor’s office unless he is indicted. The police said it is processing the case. As for Kocner, he is about to be charged for contracting the murder of Jan Kuciak, while leaks from his personal archive keep discrediting his allies who work in law enforcement and are members of Smer-SD.
Today's specials include board seats, blackmail and payoffs.
Enjoy your meal.
Slovakia and Ukraine and Biden are all tied over a natual gas supply.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find Biden got a payoff from Slovakia too.
I know. It is why I posted it. ;-)
And Romania. Don’t forget that Rudy said Romania. I’m so loving it.
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