A member of the criminal gang from Serede, Iľja Weiss, refused to testify in the case of preparation of murders of prosecutors, which is being heard at the Specialized Criminal Court (ŠTS) in Pezinok, together with the case of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak. The chairman of the ŠTS senate Miroslav Mazúch informed at the main hearing that Weiss is a cooperating person according to the file.
- Sered gang member Iľja Weiss refused to testify at the Specialized Criminal Court.
- Weiss refused to testify so as not to bring criminal charges against himself or relatives.
- According to an earlier statement, Weiss was supposed to secure a stolen car for Darko D.
- Marian K and Alena Zs are accused of ordering the murder of Ján Kuciak.
- The order for the murders of the prosecutors Žilinka, Lipšice and Šufliarske remained unfulfilled in the end.
Weiss exercised his right and refused to testify on Monday on the grounds that it would not expose himself or his relatives to criminal charges. Therefore, witness statements from the preliminary proceedings and from the previous trial are read at the main hearing.
At the main hearing in June 2022, Weiss stated that defendant Darko D., who according to him, he was talking about “some kind of job” in Piešťany, he was supposed to secure a stolen car. According to the indictment, the target of the planned murder was the current Slovak Prosecutor General Maroš Žilinka.
In the case of the murder of Kuciak from February 2018, in which his fiancee Martina Kušnírová also died in Veľká Mača in the Galanta district, the couple Marian K. and Alena Zs are facing indictment on her order. The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic annulled the previous two judgments. The case was brought to the ŠTS for the third time. The perpetrators of the murder, Miroslav Marček and Tomáš Szabó, were previously given 25-year non-parole sentences, Zoltán Andruskó 15 years non-parole.
Apart from Marian K. and Alena Zs, the prosecutors face indictment for the preparation of the murders. also Dušan K. and Darko D. According to the indictment, the order for the murders of Maroš Žilinka and Daniel Lipšic should have arrived in the fall of 2017. In the case of Petr Šufliarske, in 2018. However, they were not carried out.
