A court in Slovakia found former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence. The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him on Wednesday a fine of about $16,000. The verdict is not final and his legal team says he plans to appeal it. The case dates back to 2014 when Kiska was running for president. According to the court, Kiska illegally included tax receipts from the presidential campaign in the books of his KTAG family company. Through Kiska’s
FILE - Slovak President Andrej Kiska addresses the media at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Slovakia’s former president Andrej Kiska was found guilty of tax fraud on Wednesday Oct. 11, 2023, and received a suspended sentence. BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — A court in Slovakia found Wednesday former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence.The verdict is not final and his legal team said he planned to appeal it.
The case dates back to 2014 when Kiska was running for president. At the time, he was a successful businessman-turned-philanthropist and a political newcomer. According to the court, Kiska illegally included tax receipts from the presidential campaign in the books of his KTAG family company.KTAG through Kiska’s associate Eduard Kuckovsky then claimed a tax return worth more than 155,000 euros . Kuckovsky also received a suspended sentence and a fine.
At the time, Kiska beat then populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the race to become the country’s president for the five-year-termed largely ceremonial post. Kiska’s term in office was marked by clashes with Fico, whose leftist Smer, or Direction, party was tarnished by corruption scandals.amid a political crisis triggered by the slaying last year of an investigative reporter looking into possible widespread government corruption.
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