Peter Kysel will not be Deputy Special Prosecutor

Prosecutor-General Maroš Žilinka has decided not to appoint Peter Kysel as Deputy Special Prosecutor, spokesman Dalibor Skladan told the TASR press agency on Monday. "The Supreme Court found errors made by the prosecutor of such a nature that are incompatible with the performance of the post of a top prosecutor," said Skladan. At the same time, Žilinka took note of the opinion of 23 prosecutors of the Special Prosecutor's Office, in which they allegedly asked him to reconsider the decision. Žilinka submitted two disciplinary motions against Kysel. The first, in May 2021, concerns the case of ex-director of the Special Police Operations Department Jozef Rehak. Kysel spent almost two months processing the defendant's application for release from custody. Dennik N reported that the second disciplinary proposal concerns delays in proceedings in the case of the former director of the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) Vladimir Pčolinský.