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 ...
Brussels, March 1 (CTK correspondent) – The European Commission (EC) asked today the respective Slovak authorities to provide information on a possible abuse of European funds for agriculture in connection with the murder of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak, EC spokesman Alexander Winterstein has said. The EC reacted to the suspicion of abuse of these ...
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, ...
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, ...
Bratislava, Feb 28 (CTK) – Slovak PM Robert Fico’s two aides whose former business links to persons probably standing close to Italian mafia were highlighted in an article that reporter Jan Kuciak wrote before his murder, have left their posts pending the investigation, they announced today. The officials are head of the National Security ...
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 ...
Bratislava, Feb 26 (CTK) – The Slovak government has offered a million euros as a reward for information to help catch the murderer of young investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-Social Democracy) told the media today. According to the police, Kuciak’s work as a journalist enquiring into suspicious ...
