Only one of the bribes mentioned in the case - an amount of 90,000 euros - was said to have ended up directly with Tibor Gašpar. This concerned the case of the company Interstore Group. The company’s executive, Boris Trantalič, who is also among the defendants, allegedly approached his acquaintance Peter Javorček to ask whether he could help with a “problem” the company was facing. The businessman had received a warning that the Criminal Office of the Financial Administration was looking into the firm due to suspected tax crime.
Through the wife of Martin Fleischer and Fleischer himself - who had previously worked for the tax authorities - the request for “help” was said to have reached the head of tax crime investigators, Ľudovít Makó.
From him, the information went back that the problem could be solved for 500,000 euros.
Although the demand was later reduced to 400,000, this information never reached Trantalič, and he allegedly handed over the full 500,000 to Javorček in three installments.
Javorček was supposed to pass 400,000 euros on to Fleischer’s wife, and from there it went to Makó.
According to the indictment, Bödör had decided in advance how the money would be divided.
Forty thousand euros went to the Fleischer couple, who later confessed to the act, and the remaining 360,000 euros was to be divided among members of the group.
According to the indictment, 90,000 euros stayed with Makó, the same amount went to Slobodník, and the remaining 180,000 euros was to be split between Gašpar and Bödör.