The fact that some deeds will disappear criminality, the Ministry of Justice (MS) of the Slovak Republic has never hidden, on the contrary, it has been openly communicated in the legislative process. The resort stated this in response to the Stop the Corruption Foundation and its analysis of the existing impacts of changes in the Criminal Code.
MS spokeswoman Barbora Škulová stated that the presented figures of the foundation cannot be flattened, as each case would be necessary to assess individually in order to evaluate the connection with the amendment to the Criminal Code. “The fact is that 446 people were dismissed from the sentence, not 1200, as misleading the opposition, which deliberately pushes the public lies, “ she stressed.
She added that many of the accused and convicts who were disappeared by the criminality were so -called. Horalk’s thieves. She documented this by an example of a person who went to prison because he repeatedly stole a baguette and a sunscreen of less than three euros. “In such cases, there was a society -wide agreement in Slovakia and it was also promoted by the current opposition,” Škulová emphasized. She pointed out that by adopting legislative changes to the humanization of the state’s criminal policy, Slovakia has approached developed democracies.
Pointed out that Much more serious impacts have a poor quality reform of the judicial map. “After its approval, only after the entry into force of the amendment to the Criminal Code, since the agenda between the courts began to be moved, the number of convicts decreased by 602 persons,” informed.
The Stop Corruption Foundation stated in its analysis that at least 1324 people have already helped the amendment to the Criminal Code for the first half of its effectiveness, of which 446 prisoners were prematurely released. Due to the limitation period, thanks to the amendment, according to the findings of the foundation, 79 cases were stopped against 104 accused persons in total damage of almost five million euros. The Foundation claims that compared to 2022 and 2024, the police clarify much less crimes, for example, in the case of tax cuts, the number of cases has fallen by more than a hundred cases, fraud or receiving bribes by more than half. The Foundation declares that it was based on data published by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Corps of Prison and Judicial Guard.
