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 5 (CTK) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-Social Democracy) has failed to see how serious the situation in Slovak society after the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his partner is, major Slovak dailies write today. “We are watching a live broadcast of the end of Robert Fico. There seem to ...
Bratislava, March 4 (CTK) – Slovak General Prosecutor Jaromir Ciznar indirectly criticised Police President Tibor Gaspar today over his way of informing the public about the case of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, saying that Gaspar talked about unconfirmed clues. “I am not one of the people who react to ...
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/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 ...
Bratislava, March 2 (CTK) – Reporters without Borders (RSF) Secretary General Christophe Deloire called today on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to apologise for having offended journalists, daily Dennik N wrote after their meeting today, but Fico later dismissed such a call having been addressed to him. Fico (Smer-Social Democracy) received Deloire, along with ...
