Bratislava, March 6 (CTK) – The Slovak police confirmed today that head of the anti-corruption unit Robert Krajmer, who is being connected with “oligarch” Norbert Bodor, a brother-in-law of Police President Tibor Gaspar, was on the scene of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Gaspar himself said on Monday Krajmer had […]
Bratislava, March 6 (CTK) – Financier George Soros has distanced himself from the statements by Slovak President Andrej Kiska who said on Monday that an early election should be held or the government reshuffled due to the general loss of confidence in society, daily Hospodarske noviny writes today. Kiska said so in connection with […]
Bratislava, March 6 (CTK) – Slovakia received in 2013 information from the Italian authorities about the contacts of mafia with Italian businessman Antonino Vadala, about whom murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was writing, the Aktuality.sk portal, for which Kuciak worked, has written. Interior Minister Robert Kalinak claimed at the weekend that the Italian authorities […]
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – The Slovak police have released all seven Italians who had been detained on Thursday within the investigation into last week’s murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, the police announced today, confirming information of the server tvnoviny.sk. The server reported this morning that at least six of […]
Rome/Bratislava, March 2 (CTK) – The recent death of the young journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee forced Slovakia to become aware of the mafia operating in its territory, but Italian mafias have been investing and hiding in Slovakia for years, Italian author Roberto Saviano has written on Facebook. Saviano mentions members of the […]
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – Reporters without Borders (RSF) Secretary General Christophe Deloire insists on having called on Slovak PM Robert Fico to apologise for offending journalists, but Fico dismissed the information on Friday and the Government Office released a statement in his support today. At a meeting with Fico in Bratislava on Friday, […]
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak is not going to quit in compliance with the calls from the opposition and a junior government party, as he wants to do his utmost for the police to clear up the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, he told Slovak radio today. […]
Bratislava/Prague, March 2 (CTK) – Thousands of people gathered in the centre of Bratislava today to pay respect to investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova who were shot dead last week probably by mafia operating in Slovakia. The murder of the two young people rocked the Slovak political scene. A national […]
Bratislava/Brussels, March 2 (CTK) – The Slovak Supreme Audit Office pointed out faults in the granting of EU subsidies in agriculture, as early as 2017, when it inspected the Slovak Agriculture Payment Agency (PPA), it has turned out in connection with a recent murder of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak. Kuciak wrote about a possible […]