Kuciak: The Supreme Court set aside the judgment in case of murder
He ordered the case to be discussed by another Senate.
BRATISLAVA. The Supreme Court also returned the case of the murder of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová to a specialized court for the second time.
He decided not publicly, spokeswoman Alexandra Važanová informed.
« The case returned the case to the Special Court because of errors in the judgment under appeal, namely the uncertainty of factual findings, not to provide all the necessary evidence in order to fully find the facts of the case and the reason that the Specialized Criminal Court did not deal with all the circumstances significant for the decision, » Važanová explained.
The specialized court still 19. May 2023 liberated Marian Kočner and condemned Alena Zsuzsová, who received 25 years.
The Specialized Court convinced of the innocence of Kočner in the case of Kuciak’s report in which the public saw the opposite Read
However, the Supreme Court now pointed out that in this judgment, the Senate of Ružena Sabová did not obey the binding instruction of the Supreme Court in the previous judgment of the Supreme Court, which has already returned the case.
For this reason, the Supreme Court has now also decided that the case has ordered the case to be discussed by another Senate of the Specialized Court.
The decision was taken by the Senate of the Supreme Court by a 2: 1 vote.
In the case of Kuciak’s murder of February 2018, in which his fiancée Martina Kušnírová also lost his life, three judgments are valid. Murder executives Miroslav Marček and Tomáš Szabó received previously 25-year unconditional imprisonment, Zoltán Andruskó for 15 years unconditionally.