A court in Slovakia found Wednesday former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence.<\/p>\n
The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him a fine of 15,000 euros (about $16,000).<\/p>\n
The verdict is not final and his legal team said he planned to appeal it. Kiska, 60, had pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
SLOVAKIA, POLAND, HUNGARY BAN FOOD IMPORTS FROM UKRAINE LEADING TO OBJECTIONS FROM EU<\/strong><\/p>\n The case dates back to 2014 when Kiska was running for president. At the time, he was a successful businessman-turned-philanthropist and a political newcomer.<\/p>\n According to the court, Kiska illegally included tax receipts from the presidential campaign in the books of his KTAG family company.<\/p>\n Then-President Andrej Kiska of Slovakia addresses the press, Vienna, Austria, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018.<\/span> (AP Photo\/Ronald Zak, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Such activities were not part of the firm\u2019s business.<\/p>\n KTAG through Kiska\u2019s associate Eduard Kuckovsky then claimed a tax return worth more than 155,000 euros (about $165,000). Kuckovsky also received a two-year suspended sentence and a fine of 10,000 euros (about $10,600) .<\/p>\n HEADS OF SLOVAKIA’S SPY AGENCY, OTHER INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF ABUSING POWER, CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY<\/strong><\/p>\n At the time, Kiska beat then populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the race to become the country\u2019s president for the five-year-termed largely ceremonial post. Kiska\u2019s term in office was marked by clashes with Fico, whose leftist Smer, or Direction, party was tarnished by corruption scandals.<\/p>\n Kiska supported huge street protests that led to the fall of Fico\u2019s coalition government in 2018 amid a political crisis triggered by the slaying last year of an investigative reporter looking into possible widespread government corruption.<\/p>\n Pro-West Kiska did not run for a second five-year term in 2019.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n Fico and his Smer won the Sept 30 parliamentary election and struck a deal with two other parties on Wednesday to form a new government.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] A court in Slovakia found Wednesday former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence. The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him a fine of 15,000 euros (about $16,000). The verdict is not final and his legal team said he planned to appeal it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Andrej](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1200\/675\/andrej_kiska.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
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