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Judges are calling on their colleagues suspected of having links to organised crime groups, corruption and abusing their position to ask their functions to be suspended.
“We consider it inevitable that judges do not perform their duties until these suspicions are property investigated, since there is serious doubt over their morals, honour and personal integrity, which are basic prerequisites for serving as a judge,” said one of the signatories of the call, Katarína Javorčíková, as quoted by the TASR newswire.
It has already been signed by 168 judges from across Slovakia.
Judges allegedly linked to Kočner have been suspended
In order to maintain trust and respect towards judicial power in Slovakia, the judges in question should ask for their performance in the post to be suspended.
