STS: Judge Adjourns Daniel B.'s Interrogation Until Weekend

Banska Bystrica/Bratislava, April 18 (TASR) - A pre-trial judge of the Specialised Criminal Court (STS) has adjourned the interrogation of Daniel B. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons], who is accused of extremist criminal activity, until 1:00 p.m on Saturday (April 19), STS spokesperson Katarina Kudjakova confirmed for TASR on Friday. Whether Daniel B. will be remanded in police custody, as proposed by the prosecutor, will therefore be decided over the weekend. On Friday, the pre-trial judge deliberated on the prosecutor's motion to put Daniel B. in custody due to his failure to fulfil obligations that were imposed on the accused by the Supreme Court in February. Neither the prosecutor nor Daniel B.'s lawyer, David Lindtner, commented on the suspension of the interrogation after leaving the court. Police arrested the accused, Daniel B., on Wednesday, April 16. In the past, three arrest warrants had been issued against him. He was extradited from the United Kingdom to Slovakia under strict security measures at the end of January, and the prosecutor subsequently filed a motion to prosecute him in custody. Although the pre-trial judge of the Specialised Criminal Court originally acknowledged that the criminal prosecution was justified in January, he did not find grounds for remanding the accused in custody, and so Daniel B. was released. The Supreme Court later reviewed the prosecutor's appeal against this decision at the beginning of February and, although it acknowledged there were justified reasons to impose so-called preventive and flight-risk measures, it replaced custody with the imposition of several obligations and restrictions, including the requirement for Daniel B. to wear a monitoring bracelet. mf/df