Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
Annex
The Case of Hedviga Malinová records, not even to persons for whom the expert’s opinion is intended for; the only exception is the data that form part of the expert’s opinion. Kvasnica also criticized Labaš for asking the doctors questions from the domain of neurology although he himself was listed as a surgeon on the list of experts. Along with Labaš, Kvasnica accused all doctors who had participated in elaborating the expert’s opinion of prejudice, arguing that all of them were subordinated to Labaš. Investíqators wítIh dysľuinctíonaI MEMORY On August 24-25, 2009, the special investigation team again (for the third time) questioned Peter Horák, investigator of the original case of attack on Hedviga Malinová, and his two subordinates. Malinová’s legal counsel Roman Kvasnica wanted to ask Horák who had conducted his client’s interrogation on September 9, 2006, why the official transcript from this interrogation did not match the video recording made at the same interrogation. Horák explained the differences by saying that he summed up the facts stated by Malinová and dictated it to the recording clerk. When Kvasnica pointed out that the transcript features sentences Malinová never uttered according to the video recording, Horák replied that Malinová should not have signed the transcript if she had objections. The questioning of two other investigators, namely captains Moško and Milliner, did not bring much result either. It was them who on August 30, 2006, took over from Malinová the envelope in which she had received her identity papers back; also, it was them who brought Malinová to Nitra on September 9, 2006, under the false pretext of identifying suspected perpetrators. Before the special investigation team, both policemen maintained that they did not remember anything anymore; they were unable to explain why they had not protocolled the envelope’s handover or why they had not told Malinová that they were taking her to interrogation.48 KorceIc TURNS COAT On August 26, 2009, Peter Korček wrote a letter to Prime Minister Robert Fico, asking him to use his authority to make the Office of Attorney General abandon criminal prosecution of Hedviga Malinová on grounds of false evidence. The former SIS agent who in October 2006 filed the motion to prosecute Malinová because he was “irritated” that she had “lashed out against Slovak [law enforcement] organs” appealed to the Slovak nation’s clemency for a change. In the letter, he wrote that while he was fully 329
