General Prosecutor Maros Zilinka declared that he has met all his legal obligations by re-assigning prosecutors who formerly worked in the scrapped Special Prosecutor's Office (USP) to new positions in the Prosecutor-General's Office.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Zilinka underlined that he was taking into account the expertise of prosecutors and the organisational needs of the General Prosecutor's Office. He reiterated that the prosecution service will continue to carry out its duties even after the USP has been abolished.
Zilinka rejected criticisms from some politicians, who took objection to the fact that the majority of former USP prosecutors who are criminal law specialists with long years of expertise have been reassigned to departments that don't deal with criminal law at all. Zilinka underlined that no post in the prosecution service is inferior. "That's an insult to prosecutors and denigration of their standing," he claimed. The General Prosecutor added that he's saddened when some are speaking of the General Prosecutor’s Office department of prison service as if it were inferior.
(TASR)
