Gorilla scandal

The file suggests information about politicians, officials and business executives discussing kickbacks in return for procurement and privatization contracts.

[1] The file presents alleged massive corruption at the highest level and its leak to the public rocked the Slovak political scene.

[2] On October 16, 2019, several Slovak mainstream medias received a link to download a file that appear to be a copy of original wiretapping operation Gorilla.

In 2005, the head of the analytical department of the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) Peter Mravec noticed, that government limousines and cars of the Penta Group, one of the two biggest investment companies in the country, often park in the vicinity of his house on Vazovova Street in Bratislava, where he lived with his wife and two children at that time.

Recorded are conversations of the flat's owner Zoltán Varga with the Head of the Special Affairs Department of the Office for Combating Corruption of the Presidium of the Police Force of Slovakia (Slovak: vedúci Oddelenia zvláštnych činnosti Úradu boja proti korupcii PPZ SR) Ján Rejda and businessman Peter Demovič and conversations of the flat's co-user Jaroslav Haščák, partner of the Penta Group with Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia Jirko Malchárek, member of the Executive Board of the National Property Fund (Slovak: člen Výkonného výboru FNM SR) and Director of the Section of the National Property Fund for Establishing companies and Executing shareholder rights (Slovak: riaditeľka sekcie zakladateľských činností a výkonu práv akcionára FNM SR) Anna Bubeníková (SDKÚ), leader of the Direction – Social Democracy political party Robert Fico and his personal assistant František Határ.

Čižnár claimed that at the time he was unaware that audio he heard was copy from Gorilla file and asked Trnka to not involve him in the affair.