By: Tanja Brkić / Nova24tv
General State Prosecutor Drago Šketa, who travelled to Russia on his own and without informing the Slovenian authorities, signed a cooperation programme with the head of Russian prosecutors Igor Krasnov in Moscow. When asked by the state Prosecutor’s Office to disclose the content to the public, as agreements between Prosecutors’ Offices of different countries must not be concealed from the public, they avoided forwarding, saying the Foreign Ministry did not agree to forward the agreement, which the Foreign Ministry denies.
The content of the agreement between Drago Šketa and Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, who is on the list of EU sanctions for human rights violations, therefore remains unknown. Following a request for disclosure of the content of the document, the Supreme State Prosecutor’s Office replied that they could not do so without the approval of the competent state institutions. The content is supposedly related to the prevention of cybercrime, but any signing of agreements on the prosecution of crime with a person on the list of serious human rights violators of the EU Council, whose funds should be frozen and disabled, especially in the context of aggravation between Russia and Ukraine, is controversial and noteworthy.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office is avoiding the disclosure of the document with lies
“The claim (of the State Prosecutor’s Office) that the Foreign Ministry did not agree to forward the agreement is untrue,” the Foreign Ministry denied. Namely, they are not the ones who are delaying the disclosure of the content, as the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office claims.
On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia, the Strategic Communications Service denied the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office’s claim, saying that the statement was untrue, and that the Ministry had never expressed reservations about publishing the document, however, the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office has still not provided a document or an explanation of the reasons for refusing to do so. The fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “did not agree” to the transmission of the document to the public does not offset the concealment of such important documents from the public.