War of the cops in practice: How did Santus’s team get out of control

3. Apr 2025 at 17:37

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BRATISLAVA. No one had an impact on them and none of their superiors informed what they were working on. This was in 2021 the position of a special investigation team of the police inspection called Arc.

The team was led by investigator Diana Santus and her aim was investigators NAKA Around Ján Čurilla, who dealt with serious corruption cases.

The arc worked in one line with SIS. The people around Čurilla had the support of today’s canceled Special Prosecutor’s Office. As the two police forces went against each other, the name « war in the police » was created.

The circumstances of the work of the team’s arc gradually reveal the trial with the then police President Peter Kovařík.

The defendant is for the fact that in July 2021 he ordered to interrupt the dubious arc action. It was focused on the trio of penitents around the entrepreneur Matej Zeman, who collaborated with the cops around Čurilla. At the same time, they were close to the mafia group of Takacs.

Skilful investigator Santus

At the court with Kovařík on Thursday, the then head of the Investigation Department of the Investigation Office West Lukáš Vavrinec. He was his supervisor Santus, but he did not receive information about the team’s activities. Already when the team was established, he was told that an embargo was paying for his work. « I respected it. »