Police investigate Vladimir Mečiar’s amnesties

The police have initiated an investigation into the issuing of amnesties by former Prime Minister Vladimir Mečiar in the case of the kidnapping of former president Michal Kováč's son, the news website sme.sk reported on Tuesday. After the Constitutional Court found this legal act to be in violation of the law, the case was looked into by a regional prosecutor's office on the orders of Prosecutor-General Jaromír Čižnár. The case has now been forwarded to the law enforcement authorities. Mečiar issued the amnesties as acting president in 1998, which resulted in police ceasing investigations into the unsolved cases of the kidnapping of Kováč's son and the murder in 1996 of Robert Remiáš. The amnesties also concern a thwarted referendum of 1997.