On Thursday, the National Crime Agency (NAKA) carried out raids in several Slovak regions regarding suspicions of property and economic crime, the Special Prosecutor's Office reported.
The investigator in the case pressed charges against 31 individuals, of which six are legal entities. Several of them have been detained.
Meanwhile, news outlet aktuality.sk has reported that the general director of the national lottery company Tipos, Marek Kaňka, is among those charged. According to the news outlet, the operation, code-named 'Cart', is related to shady business with motor fuels, tax fraud and money-laundering.
Kaňka is a nominee of the largest governing Ordinary People party. Its chair and Finance Minister Igor Matovič said he trusts law enforcement bodies in response to the charges pressed against Kaňka. Tipos belongs under the Finance Ministry. Ľubica Janíková, the spokeswoman of Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger (also of the Ordinary People party) said that Heger does not interfere in the work of law enforcement bodies and will wait for the result of the investigation and then present his opinion. Kaňka took office in April 2020 when Heger was the head of the Finance Ministry (under which Tipos belongs).
Source: TASR
