Kiska comes to NAKA on video related to his land case

The chairman of the 'For People' party and ex-president Andrej Kiska delivered a testimony at the National Crime Agency (NAKA) on Friday on leaked videos that are supposed to implicate him in shady land deals. Kiska did so on his own initiative, in order to complement his criminal complaint lodged over the release of the first video. He also brought along an envelope with evidence that allegedly proves that a Smer-SD MP orchestrated the leaks. The ex-president maintains that experts concurred that the video released on Wednesday had been "ludicrously cut" and doctored. In the past, then-president Kiska was locked in a legal battle with the dentist Jan Franc over Franc's plot of land that Kiska had purchased from a third party in 1999 without Franc's knowledge. Kiska lost the lawsuit in 2018. Judge Miroslav Radacovsky ruled that Kiska had purchased the land in good faith and could not have known it had been acquired unlawfully. The two videos imply that Kiska had been aware he was buying illicitly acquired land and Michal Suliga, the court witness, was covering for him during the trial. Kiska denounced the first video as slander and lodged a criminal complaint over it.