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A court in Slovakia<\/a> found Wednesday former President Andrej Kiska guilty of tax fraud and gave him a two-year suspended sentence.<\/p>\n

The county court in the city of Poprad also handed him a fine of 15,000 euros (about $16,000).<\/p>\n

The verdict is not final and his legal team said he planned to appeal it. Kiska, 60, had pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

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The case dates back to 2014 when Kiska was running for president. At the time, he was a successful businessman-turned-philanthropist and a political newcomer.<\/p>\n

According to the court, Kiska illegally included tax receipts<\/a> from the presidential campaign in the books of his KTAG family company.<\/p>\n

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Then-President Andrej Kiska of Slovakia addresses the press, Vienna, Austria, Monday, Feb. 19, 2018.<\/span> (AP Photo\/Ronald Zak, File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Such activities were not part of the firm\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

KTAG through Kiska\u2019s associate Eduard Kuckovsky then claimed a tax return worth more than 155,000 euros (about $165,000). Kuckovsky also received a two-year suspended sentence and a fine of 10,000 euros (about $10,600) .<\/p>\n

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At the time, Kiska beat then populist Prime Minister Robert Fico in the race to become the country\u2019s president for the five-year-termed largely ceremonial post. Kiska\u2019s term in office was marked by clashes with Fico, whose leftist Smer, or Direction, party was tarnished by corruption scandals.<\/p>\n

Kiska supported huge street protests that led to the fall of Fico\u2019s coalition government<\/a> in 2018 amid a political crisis triggered by the slaying last year of an investigative reporter looking into possible widespread government corruption.<\/p>\n

Pro-West Kiska did not run for a second five-year term in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Fico and his Smer won the Sept 30 parliamentary election and struck a deal with two other parties on Wednesday to form a new government.<\/p>\n

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