Occasions: NAKA will now not examine severe instances (supply: ČT24)
The present Slovak authorities is introducing one other controversial change within the Slovak safety forces. The elite NAKA division will lose its powers in instances of bribery and arranged crime. Thus far, he has handled severe instances, together with these involving politicians. He ought to now hand over most issues to regional police items. In accordance with critics, it should weaken the combat in opposition to corruption, however the authorities claims that it’s going to, quite the opposite, make it simpler.
“NAKA and several other specialised departments should endure streamlining as a result of they don’t work effectively,” says Minister of the Inside Matúš Šutaj Eštok.
The elite division is now not supposed to analyze drug crimes, extremism or corruption intimately. As well as, greater than half of the members may go away the prison company. In accordance with the previous head of NAKA, Ľubomír Daňko, this may occasionally weaken the division’s capacity to combat corruption. “Some investigators is probably not allowed to analyze additional and will probably be reassigned to some core items. That is extra my concern, however I do not wish to speculate,” he stated.
The management of the corps claims that the transferred cops will wish to hold their instances as properly. NAKA described the division as an overworked workplace with unclear actions. “The results of the reorganization would be the strengthening of investigations, primarily on the regional and district directorates of the police pressure. That’s, the place essentially the most instances affecting odd persons are handled,” stated the presidium of the police pressure.
Doubts regarding financial savings
The federal government additional claims that the modifications will convey financial savings, however this additionally comes with vital doubts. “The wage distinction between the regional investigator and the NAKA investigator was nearly non-existent, and even zero,” stated Daňko. In accordance with him, the modifications can lengthen, but in addition block, plenty of instances. They’re supposed to use from June, however the ministry doesn’t but contemplate them last.
In accordance with revealed paperwork, NAKA will cross on a lot of the revealed instances. He’ll be capable to full virtually solely instances of worldwide scope, for instance fraud with European funds.
In March, Prime Minister Robert Fico’s authorities additionally had the elite unit of the ÚSP prosecutor’s workplace, which primarily handled instances of organized crime, abolished. The police, in cooperation with the ÚSP, started to analyze numerous instances from the time of the earlier authorities of the Smer-SD occasion, of which Fico is the chairman. Dozens of individuals have been charged or convicted within the instances.
