First, the investigation of the kidnapping was prevented by the amnesty, which was issued by Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar as a representing president for the deed in 1998. They managed to break the deputies of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic on 5 April 2017. Even three decades from the act that will expire on Sunday (31 August), the trial itself did not start.
The case had its roots in November 1994 when Interpol issued Kováč ml. arrest warrant for Technopol case. The kidnapping was also part of the discreditation campaign against President Michal Kováč in response to his resistance to Meciar. The introduction of the then management of the Slovak Information Service (SIS), led by its director Ivan Lex, is suspicious.
The process is led by the Bratislava I City Court. For months, nothing has happened for months, as it was waiting for the review of the Senate of the National Security Authority (NSA). However, it could soon be composed by the Senate that will act. Future sessions received security clearances. “The NSA has been issued a certificate of checking for the ‘Secret’ Secure Securement for four sessions in August 2025. Pavol Adamčiak, a spokesman for the Regional Court in Bratislava, mediated to TASR.
As the legal judge of the case and the President of the Senate of the City Court Bratislava and Karol Posluch, the President of the Senate, approached, ‘For the purposes of proper proceedings in the matter, ie in order to be able to act at all, it is necessary to dispose of the two regular members of the Senate as well as their substitutes’. Substitutes are needed in view of the expected longer period of court.
The kidnapping occurred on August 31, 1995, when two cars blocked the blacksmith’s car ml. Near St. Jur. A group of men stepped out of the vehicles to challenge him to get into their car. He refused, so he was forcibly dragged to Austria. The Hainburg police warned an anonymous phone call that a car was parked in front of its building, in which the blacksmith’s ml. The Austrian police arrested him and transferred to Vienna on September 1.
President Kováč addressed the Government of the Slovak Republic to ask for the release of his son from Austria. It remained without a positive response. At that time, Meciar argued that Slovakia could not provide relevant evidence of kidnapping. The investigative file was assigned to Jaroslav Šimunič, who asked Lexa to deprive some SIS members.
After a negative opinion of 7 September 1995, the Ministry of the Interior dismissed the investigator. It was replaced by Peter Vačok, who still in September He listened to Oskar Fegyveres. He claimed that as a member of the SIS he participated in the kidnapping of the President’s son.
In October 1995, Vačok was also dismissed from the case. Fegyveres hid in an unknown place for his life. He communicated through Róbert Remiáš, who died on April 29, 1996 after the explosion of the bait system under his own car. They accused Lex of the murder instructions. Later, the prosecutor stopped the prosecution of the SIS ex -existence, because according to the results of the investigation, the offense did not happen at all.
Meanwhile, October 2, 1995, Kováč ml. They released a million shillings from a custody. Two months later, in December 1995, the prosecutor of the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office in Bratislava accused him of helping the crime of fraud in connection with the case of Technopol. The president’s son returned to Slovakia in February 1996. The investigation of his kidnapping was suspended due to the lack of evidence.
Less than three months before the end of his mandate, President Kováč awarded his son grace in December 1997. After he had a proper term of office and the new head of state failed to choose, after he was able to choose, after 3 March 1998 The presidential powers temporarily passed to Meciar. He used his constitutional right and on the same day he decided to stop the investigation, or not to wait for the criminal prosecution of acts committed in connection with the introduction of Kováč ml. Later, July 7, 1998, Meciar announced another amnesty to eliminate inaccuracies in the statements of the previous amnesty.
At the end of 1998, after the parliamentary elections, The new Prime Minister and Deputy President Mikuláš Dzurinda signed a decision on amnesty. Together with the deputies of the National Council of the Slovak Republic they tried to cancel them, However, they did not find sufficient support for voting in parliament. The Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic decided that no amnesty can be canceled or changed on February 4, 1999.
In April 1999, the National Council of the Slovak Republic voted to publish HZDS Lexa deputy for criminal prosecution, which was deprived of immunity for several days MEPs also approved a proposal to take Lex into custody. It was released from it after 95 days and subsequently, in May 2000, information appeared in the media that he left the territory of the Slovak Republic.
The Technopol case for Kováč ml. ended on February 2, 2000, When the Munich Court of Munich 1, led by the chairman of Judge Hans Schmid, stopped the six years of action against him. The court concluded that Kováč’s conviction cannot be expected. A deposit of a million shillings for his release fell in favor of Germany.
Criminal prosecution of the accused Lexa et al. In the case of the introduction of Kováč ml. At the earliest in June 2001 the Senate stopped This verdict was also confirmed by the Regional Court in Bratislava for a year. A month later, on July 14, 2002, Lexa was detained by the police in South Africa. The renewal of the case was attempted by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Slovak Republic in August of that year, but the complaint was dismissed in December by the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic. His Senate then stated that the case was subject to amnesty.
The abolition of amnesties in 2017 also concerned the grace granted to his son President Kováč. At the same time, it has been decided that amnesty deeds would not be time -barred. The Constitutional Court confirmed the compliance of the approved order with the Constitution on May 31, 2017. The abolition of amnesties was then attacked by Lex’s defense counsel at the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He decided in December 2021 that the Slovak courts can act in the case.
