Slovakia and former Czech leader settle lawsuit over collaboration with communist secret police

Published October 21, 2024 9:33 AM

PRAGUE (AP) — Slovakia’s Interior Ministry has agreed in a lawsuit settlement that former former Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis did not knowingly collaborate with communist-era secret police in what was then Czechoslovakia. The ministry said it acknowledged that any interpretations of documents in the archives of the StB secret police agency that Babis was a secret agent were unjustified. Babis welcomed the settlement of a case that dated to 2012. The ministry says its decision was based on two legal analyses.

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