Jaroslav Svěchota

Male, Person

1941 –

75

Who is Jaroslav Svěchota?

Jaroslav Svěchota, plk., JUDr. was the former Deputy Chief of the Slovak Secret Service and lawyer. Together with Ivan Lexa, Svěchota was one of the key figures in the controversial reign of Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar in Slovakia in the mid-1990s and was an important figure in numerous trials concerning the Secret Service both as witness and defendant.

According to newspaper SME he was considered the "gray eminence" of the Slovak Secret Service under Ivan Lexa. All police investigation and trials of Svěchota were stopped after his death.

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Born
Sep 13, 1941

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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