Kubina: Charges Dropped Against Former NAKA Officers

Bratislava, February 27 (TASR) - Police officers of the former National Criminal Agency (NAKA) Branislav Duncko and Robert Magul had charges against them dropped in a case over which they were arrested in early December 2024, their defence attorney Peter Kubina announced in his social network post on Thursday. "The resolution of the prosecutor confirms that these charges were pressed without any proper look into all available evidence, whether in favour of the defendants or not. Put in a different way, the investigator of the internal affairs inspectorate pressed charges first, proposed to have the officers taken into custody and only then started to explore what he had charged them with," claimed Kubina. According to Kubina, the prosecutor based this decision on recordings of wiretaps in the office of Jan Curilla. He explained that the recordings should have been included in the file already at the time charges were pressed, but according to the prosecutor this happened later. "At the time the charges were pressed, important evidence that was in favour of the defendants was covered up to such an extent that after its "discovery" it became an unavoidable reason to drop the charges," he added. Kubina reported that his clients will seek compensation for the time spent in a police cell. mf/mcs