At the Specialized Criminal Court (ŠTS) in Pezinok, the trial in the case of ordering the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak, as well as in the case of the preparation of the murders of prosecutors, is to continue on Monday. Tomáš Szabó, who is serving a 25-year non-conditional prison sentence for the murder of Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kušnírová, should be interviewed. He is also legally convicted for the preparation of the murders of the prosecutors, to which he confessed.
- The trial in the case of Kuciak’s murder continues at the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok.
- Tomáš Szabó is serving a twenty-five-year sentence for the murder of Kuciak and Kušnírová.
- According to Szabó, the order for the murder of the Prosecutor General should have arrived in the summer of 2017.
- The ŠTS found Szabó guilty of preparing the murders of prosecutors, and did not impose another sentence.
- Kočner, Zsuzsová, Dušan K. and Darko D. are accused of preparing the murders of the prosecutors.
At the main hearing in June 2022, Szabó said that the order from Zoltán Andruskó to murder the current Prosecutor General of the Slovak Republic was supposed to arrive in the summer of 2017. In the inevitable case, according to his words, the prosecutor’s family should also be liquidated, which is also why he decided, together with Miroslav Marček, to “hands off” the case.
After how Szabó pleaded guilty in the case of preparing the murders of prosecutors and regretted his actions, the ŠTS previously excluded him for separate proceedings. In October 2022, he found him guilty of preparing the murders of prosecutors. However, he waived the sentence. He considered it sufficient an unconditional 25-year prison sentence that Szabó is serving for the murder of a journalist, his fiancee, and also for complicity in the murder of businessman Petr Molnár.
In the case of Kuciak’s murder from February 2018, in which his fiancee Martina Kušnírová also died in Veľká Mača in Galanta district, no.The couple Marian Kočner and Alena Zsuzsová are facing charges from 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, Marček and Szabó, had earlier received 25-year non-parole sentences, Zoltán Andruskó 15 years without 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. Szabó has been legally convicted since 2022, who confessed to the preparation of the murders.
