SUMMARY-Tuesday-September 11, 2018 - 10 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - A three-member senate of the Regional Court of Appeal in Bratislava on Tuesday handed down long prison sentences to three people - Peter Holan, Dusan Surina and Sergej Minajlenko - for plotting the murder of Bratislava underworld boss Peter Congrady in 2004, TASR learnt on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - PNK Group, an international developer of industrial and logistics real estate from Russia, has joined the European real estate market by constructing a new industrial park called PNK Park SERED in western Slovakia, TASR learnt on Tuesday. KOSICE - A Constitutional Court senate on Tuesday rejected what it called an unsubstantiated complaint against custody lodged by a jailed entrepreneur identified due to legal reasons only as Marian K, who faces prosecution over promissory note claims against TV Markiza, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - Financial Administration (tax office) President Frantisek Imcrecze intends to meet top representatives of the European Anti-fraud Office (OLAF) to discuss customs fraud centred around undervalued Chinese textile imports worth almost €300 million that occurred on Slovak territory in the early 2010s, TASR learnt on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Vice-premier for Investment and Informatisation Richard Rasi (Smer-SD) is to gain new powers, as he's to be given the area of regional development based on the amendment to the Act on the Organisation of the Government's Activities and the Organisation of Central State Administration, which Parliament moved to its second reading on Tuesday, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) institutes will remain in the state that they were in before their transformation, MPs decided with 76 votes on Tuesday, thus breaking the president's veto of the Universities Act, which includes an amendment to the SAV Act, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) has urged the Education, Science, Research and Sport Ministry to stop violating the rights of SAV and its employees immediately, alluding to the stance of the Prosecutor-General's Office released by the ministry on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - President Andrej Kiska on Tuesday called on the Government and the Education, Science, Research and Sport Ministry to put an end to the chaos surrounding the transformation of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) into a public research institution, stating after his meeting with SAV scientists that it's important for scientists to enjoy legal certainty about their status. BRATISLAVA - When it comes to state-owned property, until a complete transformation meeting all legal conditions is carried out, state property can't be transferred to organisations belonging to the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), which is why the adoption of an amendment can't lead to "hidden nationalisation", as claimed by SAV chairman Pavel Sajgalik, said Education, Science, Research and Sports Minister Martina Lubyova (Slovak National Party/SNS) at a press conference on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Science aficionados and scientists held a protest march on Tuesday aimed at saving the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), TASR learnt on the same day. BUCHAREST - Slovakia supports Romania's proposal to increase the current contributions of individual member states to the EU's common budget, said Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) on Tuesday after meeting Romanian President Klaus Iohannis during his working visit to Bucharest. BRATISLAVA - The Slovak Parliament has a new member, with Stefan Vavrek taking his oath to become an MP at the beginning of the parliamentary session on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - The Justice Ministry will move to the current premises of the Welding Research Institute on Racianska Street in Bratislava, Justice Minister Gabor Gal (Most-Hid) told a news conference on Tuesday, adding the ministry should move there from Zupne Square by the end of next year. mf