Slovakia's top prosecutor drops charges against billionaire


PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovakia's attorney general dropped charges against the country's second-richest man, Jaroslav Hascak, on Tuesday, halting one of Slovakia's most high-profile cases due to lack of evidence.

Hascak, a founding partner of Czech-Slovak Penta Investments, a private-equity group with assets in central Europe valued at 11.1 billion euros in 2020, was charged last December with money-laundering and other crimes.

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