Kuciak Murder Case to Continue with Testimony from Former Police Official

The trial in the Kuciak murder case and the alleged plot to assassinate prosecutors is set to continue with testimony from Ivo Weiss, a former police official. According to the indictment, the planned assassination target was General Prosecutor Maroš Žilinka. During a June 2022 court hearing, Weiss testified that he was asked to provide a stolen car for defendant Darko D., who had approached him about some unspecified work in Piešťany. The case stems from the 2018 murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, which exposed high-level corruption and organized crime connections in Slovakia. The prosecution alleges that the same criminal network behind the Kuciak killing also planned to murder prosecutors involved in major corruption cases, representing an unprecedented attack on Slovakia's justice system.