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Kažimír’s attorneys argued that he should have been acquitted because of the recent changes in Slovakia’s penal code, which reduced punishment for corruption and that recently ended a number of corruption cases and trials.Kažimír wasn’t present at the court. He said in a statement that he would appeal. His six-year term in office expires on Sunday.

Kažimír was accused of paying a bribe of 48,000 euros ($54,000) at the turn of the year in 2017-18 to the head of the country’s tax office in connection with a tax audit of several private companies.At the time, Kažimír was acquiring a luxury villa located in an upscale neighborhood of Bratislava, the capital, from the owner of the companies.Kažimír, who pleaded not guilty, had previously said that he considered the charges to be illegal and fabricated.

The case dates to when Kažimír served as finance minister in the leftist government of populist Prime Ministerfrom 2012 to 2019. He was a member of Fico’s Smer, or Direction, party before taking the central bank job.

Smer lost the 2020 general election and was replaced by a coalition government whose parties campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket.

Since that government took power, a number of people linked to Fico’s party faced prosecution in corruption scandals.And though the CDC provides some funds for minority groups, Latino health policy advocates want the federal government to declare a public health emergency in hopes of directing more money to Latino communities, saying current efforts aren’t enough.

“Our invisibility is no longer tolerable,” said Vincent Guilamo-Ramos,of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

Hermida suspects he contracted the virus while he was in an open relationship with a male partner before he came to the U.S. In late January 2022, months after his symptoms started, he went to a clinic in New York City that a friend had helped him find to finally get treatment for HIV.Too sick to care for himself alone, Hermida eventually moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, to be closer to family and in hopes of receiving more consistent health care. He enrolled in an