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 ...
Bratislava, March 6 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska has been playing power games, pursuing opposition policy and destabilising Slovakia since the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, Prime Minister Robert Fico told journalists today. Kuciak and his girlfriend, both 27, were shot dead in their house in Velka Maca village, west Slovakia, at ...
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 5 (CTK) – Slovak Culture Minister Marek Madaric tendered his letter of resignation to President Andrej Kiska over the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak today, but he will keep the post for the time being. Madaric announced his resignation last week. Kuciak and his fiancee were shot dead in their ...
Bratislava, March 4 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska proposed today “a vast and essential” reconstruction of the cabinet of Robert Fico or an early general election as a way out of the crisis of confidence in the state following last week’s murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Kiska will discuss 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, 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 ...
