Slovak Official Calls State Subsidy to Untraceable Firm 'Scandalous'

Ján Hargaš, a Slovak official, has denounced as scandalous the allocation of a state subsidy to a company that appears to have no working telephone contact. The firm officially lists its headquarters in a residential apartment building in Bratislava, the Slovak capital, and investigators found no one at the location where the company was supposed to carry out activities funded by the state grant. The case highlights concerns about oversight of public funding distribution in Slovakia, where proper verification of recipient companies' operational status appears to have been lacking.