Dušan Kováčik, an important figure for Prime Minister Robert Fico, has been convicted of corruption and is now facing charges in two additional major cases.
Former elite prosecutor Dušan Kováčik, who was serving an eight-year sentence in prison for corruption and for revealing classified facts, was released from prison on Wednesday. The execution of his sentence was suspended until the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic decides on the appeal filed in his favor.