Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
The Case of Hedviga Malinová ed to the proposal by a letter to the attorney general posted on October 20, 2008, in which he argued that since a polygraph test was not acknowledged as evidence by the Code of Criminal Procedures, his client would not violate any law by refusing the test or failing to appear before the special investigation team. In the letter, Kvasnica again called on the Office of Attorney General to disclose the charges against Malinová and specify when she had lied and what about. On this occasion, Kvasnica announced that his client had already taken a polygraph test in November 2006 in a country where forgery of polygraph test results was punishable by law, adding that Malinová’s version of the story was evaluated as truthful by the test. Kvasnica also emphasized that Malinová was willing to take a polygraph test in the presence of the attorney general but only abroad. The Office of Attorney General did not react in any way to the proposal. Kvasnica also informed that he had been approached by people close to the Office of Attorney General who offered that if his client confessed to not telling the truth at least in some aspects of the case, her criminal prosecution would be abandoned. Kvasnica added that he had turned down the offer and refused any such haggling. On October 30, 2008, an employee of the Nitra branch of Slovenská sporiteľňa testified before the special investigation team, disproving the assertion by the interior minister that the credit card stolen from Malinová had not been stopped. The employee recollected telling the investigators who came asking for information on August 31, 2006, that the credit card had been stopped on August 25, 2006, and re-activated again on August 31, 2006.39 PROPOSAL TO QUESTÍOIN FuRtIhER WÍTNESSES On December 5, 2008, Roman Kvasnica proposed to the Office of Attorney General that further witnesses be questioned as part of the process of gathering criminal evidence.40 He requested repeated interrogation of the original case investigator Peter Horák who was supposed to explain why the transcript of Hedviga Malinová’s interrogation of September 9, 2006, did not match the video footage of the interrogation. Kvasnica also proposed to question Erik Tomáš, the Interior Ministry Spokesman who had uttered the following sentence in an interview for one daily paper in October 2006: “Six days after the attack, the headquarters of Slovenská sporiteľňa confirmed that the [credit] card had not been stopped.” Kvasnica argued he would like to find out where Tomáš got the informa-323
