Most people are concerned about Kočner’s communication

About one-third of voters do not believe the text messages.

Marian Kočner (centre) in court.Marian Kočner (centre) in court. (Source: TASR)

The majority of Slovakia’s inhabitants are concerned about the communication between Marian Kočner and several top public officials and politicians, which was encrypted via the Threema app.

This stems from a poll carried out by the Focus agency for private broadcaster TV Markíza.

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The poll was carried out between September 11 and 17 on 1,029 respondents.

The poll was taken before the Denník N daily published messages between Kočner, who is among others accused of ordering the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak, and ex-state secretary of the Justice Ministry Monika Jankovská, as reported by the Sme daily.

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