BRATISLAVA (SITA) - After the 11th parliamentary session closed on Wednesday with adopting the Slovak Parliamentís official resolution to the situation in Kosovo, the deputies stayed in Parliament to begin a specially summoned 12th session to decide on an investigator`s request to allow preliminary detention of Ivan Lexa, deputy for the opposition Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) and former boss of the Slovak intelligence Service (SIS). With regard to experience of previous debates on lifting immunity from prosecution, Parliament voted to limit individual presentations to ten minutes. This does not apply to deputies who will speak on behalf of their parliamentary faction and will not affect the main protagonist Lexa. Slovak Parliament ended its sixteen-hour parliamentary-debate marathon on lifting Lexa`s immunity on April 9 when it decided to surrender the deputy to criminal prosecution. The deputies lifted Lexa`s immunity in five cases, and in another two cases the police investigation will have to be stopped. Lexa will be prosecuted based on the suspicion that he was involved in the abduction of the former Slovak president`s son, in stealing a car, in the illegal sale of a precious church picture, in the placing of an explosive device, and in illegally monitoring telephone calls on the NMT mobile network. The investigation will be stopped in association with not exempting the president of the vow of silence and the illegal use of a SIS owned car. As Lexa told journalists, he was not taken aback by his colleagues` decision at all and suspected that a political trial is being arranged. Lexa denied allegations that the SIS collected information against deputies when he was its boss. After Parliament decided to allow criminal prosecution of Lexa, it was asked to approve his preliminary detention to prevent him from marring the investigation. The regional prosecutor in Bratislava has already approved investigating Lexa in custody based on a justified suspicion that Lexa might try to influence testimonies of witnesses to the offenses with which he is charged. However, court approval is required for detention exceeding 24 hours. The Parliamentary Constitutional Committee has been sitting over the case and ruled that a deputy remains a deputy even after he/she is taken into custody, which means his/her deputy mandate does not terminate. However, the rights to make use of the mandate are limited. The limitation stems from the character of the related custody.