ECHR says Bavčar entitled to EUR 16,000 due to violated presumption of innocence

Strasbourg, 7 September - Examining the sentencing of former Istrabenz executive Igor Bavčar to five years in prison over money laundering in 2016, the ECHR has found a violation of the right to presumption of innocence but no violation of the principle of no punishment without law. Slovenia needs to pay Bavčar, who was the country's first interior minister, EUR 16,000.