Slovak institute seeks to overturn Andrej Babiš StB| agent verdict

Slovakia’s keeper of Communist era archives, the National Memory Institute, has lodged an appeal with the country’s Supreme Court to overturn the decision this summer of a regional court which confirmed that ANO leader Andrej Babiš was wrongly recorded as an agent of the secret police, the StB. The institute maintains that the decision was based on material that should not have been permitted in court, namely testimonies of former StB agents. Babiš, the Czech minister of finance, fought to clear his name of the suggestion in archives that he was a confidant of the Communist secret police in 1980 and two years later upgraded to an agent.

Author: Chris Johnstone