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Dennik N Publishes Excerpts from Alleged Marian K.-Bodor Chats

Dennik N Publishes Excerpts from Alleged Marian K.-Bodor Chats

Bratislava, August 1 (TASR) – According to encrypted chat transcripts obtained by the police, businessman Marian K., who is charged with ordering the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak last year, allegedly sent the reporter’s address to former secret-service officer Peter Toth in October 2017, ordering him to ‘paparazzi’ Kuciak,

Caputova: Condition of Disciplinary Judiciary is Insufficient

Caputova: Condition of Disciplinary Judiciary is Insufficient

Bratislava, July 22 (TASR) – The condition of Slovakia’s disciplinary judiciary is insufficient although it is one of the basic preconditions for an independent judiciary, said President Zuzana Caputova following her meeting with Supreme Court President Daniela Svecova on Monday. Caputova finds a disciplinary judiciary to be important, as it

Specialised Criminal Court Launches Proceedings in Case of TV Promissory Notes

Specialised Criminal Court Launches Proceedings in Case of TV Promissory Notes

Bratislava, July 22 (TASR) – A senate of the Specialised Criminal Court initiated on Monday proceedings in the case of the so-called television promissory notes and obstruction of justice against controversial entrepreneur Marian K. and former general director of television channel Markiza Pavol R.. The proceedings are scheduled to last six

Officials Welcome Court Verdict on Profit Ban for Health Insurers

Officials Welcome Court Verdict on Profit Ban for Health Insurers

Bratislava, July 19 (TASR) – Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenicky (Smer-SD) is happy with the verdict of the Bratislava District Court I, which granted the state a victory in the lawsuit over the ban on profits for health insurers, TASR learnt on Friday. “I’m incredibly glad that the court affirmed our

OLaNO: Sufliarsky Needs to be Cut Loose from Prosecutor's Office

OLaNO: Sufliarsky Needs to be Cut Loose from Prosecutor's Office

Bratislava, July 18 (TASR) – Opposition OLaNO party calls upon prosecutor Peter Sufliarsky again to release his SMS text exchanges with Marian K., who currently faces charges of ordering the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak, TASR learnt on Thursday. OLaNO responded this way to media reports that the National Criminal Agency

Court Sentences Hooligans from Venturska St. to Six Months in Prison

Court Sentences Hooligans from Venturska St. to Six Months in Prison

Bratislava, July 14 (TASR) – Four Dutchmen and three Poles who took part in fighting in the centre of Bratislava earlier this week have been sentenced to six months in prison, after which they will be banned from entering Slovakia for three years, Bratislava Regional Court spokesman Pavol Adamciak told TASR

Bratislava: Property Demolished in Mass Brawl, Police Didn't Ask for Help

Bratislava: Property Demolished in Mass Brawl, Police Didn't Ask for Help

Bratislava, July 11 (TASR) – Neither the capital city nor Bratislava city police received any calls for assistance from the state police before Wednesday’s (July 10) mass brawl between football hooligans in the Old Town, Bratislava City spokesman Peter Bubla stated on Thursday. On Wednesday evening, dozens of Cracovia Krakow,