“The police summoned Haščák to the police headquarters for questioning and did not release him,” Aktuality.sk said. In addition to corruption, Haščák is also to be accused of legalizing the proceeds of crime.
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In the afternoon, a special unit of the Slovak police intervened in the Bratislava headquarters of the Penta financial group, which also operates in the Czech Republic.
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Hit with submachine guns
“Police officers with machine guns entered the Penta headquarters, blocked the elevators and the employees had to leave the building,” said Denník N. According to the letter, they intervened on the sixth and seventh floors of the building. “They took cell phones and laptops. Ordinary employees who were on the floors at the time had to stand by the wall with their hands behind their backs, “said one of the eyewitnesses.
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The Czech-Slovak financial group Penta Investments confirmed the police intervention in its Bratislava headquarters and the information that its co-owner Jaroslav Haščák had been charged. In a press release, Penta described the allegations as “unfounded and disproportionate” and criticized the police intervention as “a disproportionate and unfounded demonstration of force.”
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A strong state is being made by a weak state, Matovič responded
It is not yet clear what the police intervention is related to, but it is likely that this is a continuation of the National Criminal Agency’s action, in which special prosecutor Dušan Kováčik and former police president Tibor Gašpar were detained. Kováčik supervised the corruption case of the Gorilla at the time and, according to Denník N, often acted more as Penta’s lawyer, not as a special prosecutor.
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Prime Minister Igor Matovic also responded to the police intervention at Penta’s headquarters on the social network: “The mafia is only as strong as the state is weak. Dot.”
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Haščák appears in Gorilla recordings when the secret service recorded his interviews with politicians in a conspiracy apartment on Vazovova Street in Bratislava. Large state deals and privatizations for bribes were argued there. For example, he was to meet with the Minister of Economy of the then Dzurinda government, Jirka Malchárek, the chairman of the Social Democracy Direction, Robert Fic, and the then head of the National Property Fund, Anna Bubeníková.
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