The Slovak mafia (Slovak: Slovenská mafia) constitutes various organized crime groups in Slovakia, controlled primarily by Slovak interests. The Slovak mafia does not have significant …

Jul 21, 2018 · He and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova were found shot dead at close range at their home in the village of Vel'ka Maca outside the capital, Bratislava. They were only 27. Kuciak …

Two prisoners have committed suicide while serving their sentences and there were no amnesties or releases on probation in the history of Slovakia. The list of people convicted for life in …

Jozef Roháč a.k.a. Potkan (Rat) (September 6, 1956) is a Slovak criminal, terrorist and Slovak mafia hitman, specializing in explosives. He is mostly known for installing the explosive device …

Feb 18, 2019 · Soon enough, the Italian mafia joined the former Yugoslavs and the Albanians. Today — though known for its relatively painless transition from communism and its …

Feb 21, 2019 · Key questions remain: How did the mafia become so powerful in Slovakia? How deeply do its tentacles reach into the country’s politics, its economy, and its future? And most …

Dec 14, 2018 · Slovaks have lost faith in their state apparatus, especially since the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak in February this year. A former detective now claims the Slovak police …

Sep 13, 2019 · Slovakia tries to shake off mafia influence. Evidence is mounting that the populist Smer party allowed mafia-linked groups to extend influence deep into Slovakia.

Róbert Holub, the head of the Eastern Slovak Mafia, organized the criminal structure and business activities mainly through the private security agency Secura. The agency, like other …

The arrival of the Italian mafia in the 1990s was a distinctly Slovak specificity. The public only became aware of the phenomenon thanks to the work of the later murdered journalist Ján …