Crime and corruption – A journalist’s murder in Slovakia

Slovakian investigative journalist Ján Kuciak was murdered along with his fiancée in 2018. Kuciak had been working on uncovering links between state leadership and criminal networks. The murders sparked nationwide demonstrations, followed by investigations.

The murder of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová on February 26, 2018, near Bratislava, Slovakia, sent the country into turmoil. Ján Kuciak’s investigations into corruption and oligarchy in a supposedly well-functioning democracy were published after his death. They eventually led to the fall of Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government.
But the question remains: Was it really this work that made Ján Kuciak a target?

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