At the Specialized Criminal Court (ŠTS) in Pezinok, the trial in the case of ordering the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and in the case of the preparation of the murders of prosecutors should continue on Monday. The interrogations of the defendants have been announced.
- At the ŠTS in Pezinok, the trial in the case of the murder of Ján Kuciak continues.
- The defendants’ interrogations and the main hearing are scheduled for Monday.
- Marian K. and Alena Zs are indicted for the murder of Kuciak.
- The Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic annulled the previous verdicts, and the case returned to the ŠTS.
- Dušan K. and Darko D. are also facing indictment for preparing the murders of the prosecutors.
Monday’s main hearing is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. At the main hearing in January, the indictment was presented and Darko D., the defendant in the case of the preparation of the murders of the prosecutors, testified. At the same time, the ŠTS Senate decided to admit evidence in the form of communication from the Threema application from seized mobile phones.
In the case of the murder of Kuciak from February 2018, in which his fiancee Martina Kušnírová also died, the couple Marian K. and Alena Zs 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, 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 come in the fall of 2017. In the case of Petr Šufliarske, in 2018.
