Ugor to take post today

New head of the National Security Office (NBÚ) Aurel Ugor, whom the cabinet voted to the job on January 28, will take the post today.

The Slovak daily SME wrote that, Ugor, 37, a married father of one child, worked for the Defence Ministry after he graduated from the Military University in the Czech city of Vyškov in 1990 and has worked for military intelligence ever since.

Compiled by Martina Pisárová from press reports
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