Courts: Satorovci Gang's Undertaker Lehel H. Receives Life Sentence (2)

Bratislava, November 23 (TASR) - The Specialised Criminal Court in Pezinok on Tuesday handed down a life sentence to Lehel H. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons], who often played the role of the "undertaker" in the Dunajska Streda-based criminal gang, centred around Lajos Sator. Lehel H. faced charges of five murders, of founding, supporting and orchestrating a criminal group and the theft of 45.5 million Slovak crowns (€15.1 million) from a security deposit box in Dunajska Streda. The verdict is not yet final. Lehel H. filed an appeal, which will bring the case before the Supreme Court. "The court found the defendant guilty... and handed down a life sentence in a maximum security prison. Furthermore, the court imposed a punishment of property confiscation," said court spokesperson Katarina Kudjakova. Among the five victims murdered by Lehel H. was also the gang's boss, to whose murder the defendant pleaded guilty. Lehel H. shot his victims dead, then mashed the bodies in a meat grinder and buried them on the premises of a former agricultural collective in Dunajska Streda. mf/mcs