Former Slovakian President Andrej Kiska has introduced that he has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the president’s place of job for withholding his lifetime wage according to his conviction for tax fraud. He described the transfer as unlawful retroactivity. Kiska, who has grow to be wealthy via industry up to now, claims that he’s no longer after the cash.
The lack of the correct to a life-time wage and state safety, as an example, for ex-presidents convicted of an intentional crime, was once driven via within the decrease space by means of the federal government this June premiere Roberta Ficawhich Kiska in 2014 he defeated the top of state in a right away election.
On the finish of October, the Court docket of Enchantment then made a last resolution punished Kiska with a suspended sentence for unauthorized tax deductions of his circle of relatives corporate KTAG within the quantity of over 155 thousand euros (3.9 million CZK) in reference to the inclusion of Kiska’s election marketing campaign prices in KTAG’s accounting.
It was once the conviction of the ex-president and the discussed regulation that the presidential place of job in November justified its resolution to prevent paying the wage of Kisko, who was once the top of the Slovak state from 2014 to 2019. Former Slovak presidents are entitled to an annuity equivalent to the fundamental wage of a member of the Slovak Parliament, these days 4,076 euros (over 102,000 CZK) monthly.
“Even a first-year regulation pupil is aware of that preventing the pay of a former president in accordance with a newly handed regulation is retroactive,” wrote Kiska at the social community.
Kiska, who up to now were given wealthy by means of promoting stocks in firms focused on catalog and installment gross sales, claimed that he was once no longer considering cash, however in justice. He mentioned that as president, he gave away his wage, totaling greater than 300,000 euros (CZK 7.5 million). He additionally pointed to 2 different non-profit initiatives on which he spent 1.6 million euros (over 40 million crowns).
After the conviction of Kiska, the Slovak Ministry of the Inner introduced that it could no longer supply him with coverage. Kiska has many times claimed that his tax case was once a device for Fico’s political vendetta.
