Susko: Justice Ministry Has Never Asked for Any Specific Supreme Court Cases

Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - The Justice Ministry hasn't asked for any court files or specific cases in its probe at the Supreme Court; it only wants to inspect the information system governing the docket via which cases are supposedly randomly assigned to judges, Justice Minister Boris Susko (Smer-SD) declared on Thursday. "The Justice Ministry has never asked for any court files. We don't need them and have never asked for them in any probe," said Susko at a press conference in Parliament. Any claims to the contrary are a purpose-built hoax, he underlined. The Justice Ministry only wants the Supreme Court to submit its case-management system and all data surrounding the assigning of files. However, the Supreme Court refused to allow such a probe, and so, in Susko's view, declared that its file management is beyond the reach of any inspection. Susko added that he hasn't asked for anything than his predecessors didn't request. According to Susko, the top interest for the Supreme Court should be to dispel any doubts. For this reason, he fails to understand why the court is resisting the inspection. mf/df