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Cabinet Ignored Mafia In Slovakia, Despite Warnings: President Kiska

Bratislava, March 7 (CTK) – The Slovak intelligence service (SIS) for long warned ministers of a mafia group operating in eastern Slovakia, President Andrej Kiska said today, two weeks after the murder of a journalist who wrote about business linked to mafia and its ties to people close to PM Robert Fico.   “People have ...

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Slovak Coverup: Italy Provided Intel On Mafia Tied To Jan Kuciak Murder In 2013

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 ...

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Jan Kuciak Murdered Over EU Subsidy Fraud: Slovak Auditors Knew In 2017

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 ...

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Slovak Police Arrest 7 In Murder Investigation Of Journalist Jan Kuciak

Bratislava, March 1 (CTK) – The Slovak police have detained seven people in raids in eastern Slovakia during the investigation into the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, Police President Tibor Gaspar told reporters today.   Media reported previously that Antonino Vadala, an Italian businessmen whom Kuciak mentioned in his last unfinished article, ...

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Jan Kuciak: Murdered Slovak Journalist Uncovered Italian Mafia Ties To Prague

Prague, Feb 28 (CTK) – Italian businessman Antonino Vadala, who is linked to the Italian mafia and Slovak top politicians, according to murdered Slovak reporter Jan Kuciak, owns the Vadala Group CZ firm in the Czech Republic, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.   Vadala has owned the firm since last November. Until then, ...

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Murdered Journalist Was Probing Italian Mafia Links To Slovak PM’s Office

Bratislava, Feb 27 (CTK) – Jan Kuciak, a recently killed Slovak journalist, investigated the activities of the people close to the Italian ‘Ndrangheta in Slovakia and their ties to Maria Troskova, a current assistant of Prime Minister Robert Fico, daily Sme writes today.   On Monday, investigative journalist Tom Nicholson said he had discussed the ...