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. Peter Tóth, a former member of the Slovak Information Service, should give a witness statement.
- The trial continues on Monday at the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok.
- Peter Tóth has already declared complete certainty about the joint planning of the murder.
- According to Tóth, the surveillance of journalists was intended to mask the real plan to assassinate Kuciak.
- Marian Kočner and Alena Zsuzsová are facing re-indictment for the order of murder.
- Orders for the murders of the prosecutors were being prepared, but they were not carried out.
In January 2020, Tóth stated in court, among other things, that has not the slightest doubt that Marian Kočner and Alena Zsuzsová jointly planned the murder of Kuciak. According to him, the surveillance of journalists and the later Na pranieri show were only a cover legend intended for the murder of Kuciak. He refused to testify at the main hearing in September 2022.
In the case of Kuciak’s murder from February 2018, in which his fiancee Martina Kušnírová also died in Veľká Mača in the Galanta district, Marian Kočner and Alena Zsuzsová 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, had earlier received 25-year non-parole sentences, the intermediary of the murder, Zoltán Andruskó, had received 15 years of non-parole.
He refused to testify at the main hearing in September 2022.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.
