Bratislava, May 12 (CTK) – The Swiss prosecutor’s office has ended the investigation into the case of late Czech Communist MEP Miloslav Ransdorf, who was detained with three Slovaks, on suspicion of property delicts, the Slovak media has written.
In December, the Swiss police detained Ransdorf in the Kantonalbank bank in Zurich, along with three Slovaks, on suspicion of a financial fraud. The four men were suspected of an attempt to gain a high sum from the bank using false documents.
All of them claimed that the documents were not false.
The Swiss prosecutor’s office has confirmed the news, but did not elaborate.
Corinne Bouvard, spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office in Zurich, said she could confirm that the prosecution of all the four defendants had been halted by the prosecutor’s office.
The daily Pravda has written that the prosecutor’s office decided to drop the accusations at the end of April.
“The investigation has been halted. It was not proven that I committed any crime or that I was trying to rob a bank,” Slovak Peter Guzmicky, one of the three defendants, has said.
Guzmicky said all of them had received compensation from the Swiss authorities, but did not disclose the sum.
Ransdorf, aged 62, suddenly died this January. His widow, Vlasta Ransdorfova said the incident in Switzerland had contributed to his death as he suffered from diabetes and the Swiss police denied the drugs to him.
The allegation was denied by the Swiss police.
The four men said they had only been trying to establish a contact between the bank and its client.
