Bratislava, March 19 (CTK) – The Slovak General Prosecutor’s Office said today it has addressed Italian authorities to propose the establishment of a joint team to investigate the murder of Jan Kuciak, a journalist who wrote about suspicious activities of Italian entrepreneurs in Slovakia. Before being shot dead, together with his girlfriend, in late ...
Bratislava, March 12 (CTK) – Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-Social Democracy) announced his resignation, which the opposition and the smallest government coalition party Most-Hid demanded after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak, at a press conference today. Kalinak, deputy chairman of Smer-SD, is the second minister from the cabinet of PM and chairman ...
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/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 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, ...
Bratislava, March 1 (CTK) – The Slovak junior government party Most-Hid has called on Interior Minister Robert Kalinak and Police President Tibor Gaspar to resign over last week’s murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend, its leader Bela Bugar told journalists today. The resignation of Kalinak and Gaspar has also been demanded ...
