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News on corruption in Slovakia
Poll: Slovaks worry about corruption and a bad political culture
The most problematic area is the standard of living.
Leaked video shows Smer's former fin min talk corruption with Trnka
Trnka recorded Počiatek talking about two major corruption cases of the first Fico government.
Judges call on their colleagues facing suspicions to stop judging
The joint call has been signed by 168 judges from across Slovakia.
Millions fly. How they organised kickbacks
Some quotes from the Gorilla recording leaked to the media on October 16.
Slovakia listens to Gorilla
Jaroslav Haščák tried to control the state without voters giving him that power.
Gorilla recording has been leaked online
The recording is nearly 39 hours long. Penta is ready to submit a criminal complaint.
Čaputová on Threema: We should be just when demanding justice
The president labelled the Threema scandal, if confirmed, “the biggest failure” of the Slovak judiciary.
Voices on the Gorilla recording are authentic
The recording, found in the house of Marian Kočner, could advance the case of the biggest corruption scandal of the 2000's.
Police seized mobile phones of judges and ex-state secretary due to corruption suspicions
Police launched a criminal prosecution due to the alleged attempts to influence judges by Marian Kočner.
Kočner's people can no longer earn off Technopol
The controversial case took a new turn.
Bašternák will go to prison and lose his property
The court issued a stricter sentence for the controversial businessman guilty of tax fraud.
UPDATED: President Kiska: Fico wanted to blackmail me
Smer chair Robert Fico allegedly threatened "a war" if the president refused to appoint him as Constitutional Court president.
Italian journalist: Kuciak's work burned dirty money worth millions
The murdered journalist was better at investigating than the Slovak police, says Italian journalist Maria Grazia Mazzola.
The perception of corruption in Slovakia has been the worst since 2013
The murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak has underscored Slovakia's disability to fight corruption.
Penta wants investigators to destroy Gorilla recordings
But it is possible the police will not accede to this request.
Police found recordings from the infamous Gorilla file in Kočner’s flat
They might confirm the authenticity of the file questioned by the financial group Penta and several politicians.
Police searched for bulletin-board ministers. They have now been escorted to prison
The police could not locate the ex-ministers at first but later declared the search over.
Bulletin-board ministers go to prison
Former SNS politician Marian Janušek and Igor Štefanov got 11 and 9 years behind bars respectively.
UPDATED: Denník N: Danko is a plagiarist
The daily analysed the thesis identical to that of Parliament's Speaker Andrej Danko to find it was copied from textbooks. Danko does not plan to resign, he wants to wait for the stance of a special commission.
Police will not investigate Kaliňák and Počiatek on suspicion of corruption
A criminal complaint has been rejected, the Stop Corruption Foundation wrote on its blog.
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