The defender of the police officers around Ján Čurilla, Peter Kubina, drew attention to an extremely serious security incident. He received a regular mail from the Presidium of the Police Force, but inside it was a classified document in the “Restricted” category. The lawyer, who is not authorized to handle such materials, speaks of the suspicion of an intelligence game and an attempt at compromise.
Photo: TASR, FB/Peter Kubina
Peter Kubina and the envelope, which, according to his own words, he received from the police.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. Kubina described on the social network that the package did not have any special markings and at first glance could not be distinguished from regular mail. The surprise came only after it was opened.
“The content was a document unknown to me marked with the level of secrecy ‘Reserved’. So someone from the Presidium of the Police Force sent me, as a person without authorization, classified information by post,” the lawyer said.
According to the Act on the Protection of Classified Facts, an unauthorized person may not touch such documents at all, let alone familiarize themselves with them or keep them. This would put her at immediate risk of prosecution.
Immediate reaction: The document went to the NBU
Kubina responded to the situation strictly according to the letter of the law. He refused to familiarize himself with the contents of the classified document. He immediately repackaged, sealed, marked and sent the document with the original envelope to the National Security Office (NBÚ), thereby fulfilling his legal obligation.
At the same time, he officially informed the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic, which is the originator of the document, about the entire incident. For his own legal protection, he took a picture of the entire sending process.
According to Kubina’s information, he did not receive such a shipment himself – it should have been delivered to his client as well. These are police officers (known as “čurillos”) whom the Minister of the Interior, Matúš Šutaj Eštok, has been unsuccessfully trying to dismiss from the Police Force for three years.
The lawyer therefore openly talks about the suspicion, whether it was a deliberate provocation with the aim of producing compromising material for his clients or himself.
“Should we take it as an attempt to make a reason for it? Such unauthorized handling of a classified fact would certainly be appropriate,” states Kubina and asks the public question: “Was it just an individual administrative failure and mistake by an individual, or an attempt at some kind of intelligence game in order to ‘slip’ a classified document to me and thus create a pretext for my subsequent prosecution? And since it didn’t work, what will they send us next time? Drugs?”
The Ministry of the Interior and the Presidium of the Police Force will thus have to explain how it is possible that classified information leaves their offices in ordinary envelopes to civilians, resulting in an obvious violation of security regulations.
