Anton Vašek

[2][3] On 3 April 1942, Vašek was appointed head of Department 14 in the Slovak State's Central Economic Office.

[3] Vašek's desire for money to fund his gambling and womanizing made him susceptible to bribery;[5][6] he was the highest-ranking Slovak official to accept bribes from the Working Group.

[8] Although Vašek accepted thousands of Slovak koruna in bribes,[9] he continued to organize transports[10][6] and said that the "Jewish question must be solved 100 percent".

[11] Due to his high-handedness in exercising power over life and death, Vašek became known as the "king of the Jews" (Slovak: Židovský kráľ).

[6] Vašek was tried by the National Tribunal, accused of accepting 2 million koruna in bribes[13] and being responsible for the deportation of 50,000 Slovak Jews to concentration camps.