US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced that the United States had immediately banned the former Slovak attorney general and his son, Dobroslav Trnka, from entering the country. The explanatory note to this measure referred to “corruption cases that undermine public confidence in democratic institutions and the rule of law.”
“As a result, I declare that Trnka is ineligible to enter the United States,” the head of US diplomacy wrote on Twitter.
Dobroslav Trnka, Prosecutor of Slovakia in 2004-2011, in 2019 Actions startedMisuse of powers. Then with regard to the fact that, according to the investigative bodies, the so-called police were not extradited Gorilla Folder Audio recordings he claims to have been in possession of for years.
The gorilla file is a file that is allegedly based on a description of the intelligence eavesdropping that took place between 2005 and 2006, and contains information indicating mergers and corruption between the political and economic elites at the time.
The punishment the United States applies, an entry ban, is also unknown in Hungary. Although the original article Napi Gazdaság, which sparked the scandal, is no longer available – Magyar Idők, said to be the newspaper’s legal successor, no longer exists. It is no longer available -, so the index archive Degree It can be recalled that on October 16, 2014, the newspaper, which was already owned by the end of the century, wrote about the fact that the Hungarian tax authorities had been banned by the United States because some American-owned companies were being investigated. At the time, the US embassy only reported that there were fewer than ten high-ranking government officials who, according to credible evidence gathered from the embassy, had committed corruption.
After that, the head of the NAV himself was Ildiko Veda he knows He is among those who were punished with this punishment. Then, for years, the issue became a political mess between the government and the United States. The court finally closed the VAT bribery and fraud case that had raised the case in 2019 Wrote more details here Indicator.
