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The prosecutor asked the court to sentence the three defendants in the Jan Kuciak murder trial to 25 years in prison. Prosecutor Vladimir Turan requested the sentence during his closing arguments today after the court rejected proposals by the prosecutor and defense to submit further evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This is the case of innocent young people who want to live in a free environment. It cannot be said that this is a case we have encountered. So far, we have seen it more in films that are flooding us with commercial television,” the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Businessman Marian Ko\u010dner<\/a> also faces charges in the ongoing trial. According to the prosecutor’s office, Ko\u010dner ordered the murder of Kuciak after the investigative journalist reported on his crimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Publishing activities explicitly bothered the defendant because it presented him as a businessman committing a crime. The defendant knew that this could be his obstacle to establishing himself in political life,” said Prosecutor Vladimir Turan. Ko\u010dner planned to enter politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecutor’s office said that Ko\u010dner paid Alena Zsuzsov\u00e1, to have the journalist murdered. According to the prosecutor, Zsuzsov\u00e1 was financially dependent on Ko\u010dner, who is her daughter’s godfather. Turan also said that the defendant obtained compromising materials for Kocher on celebrities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third defendant is alleged to have helped murderer the journalist, Tom\u00e1\u0161 Szab\u00f3. The defense will deliver its closing arguments on July 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zolt\u00e1n Andrusk\u00f3, who cooperated with the police in the investigation and was sentenced to 15 years in prison last year, previously confessed to planning the murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, Miroslav Mar\u010dek<\/a> admitted in court that he shot a journalist, girlfriend, and a businessman. Mar\u010dek was sentenced to 23 years in prison in April this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrusk\u00f3 said in court that he arranged Kuciak’s murder between Zsuzs and Szab\u00f3 on Ko\u010dner’s instructions. Another witness testified that he had arranged for Kuciak and other reporters to be watched at Ko\u010dner’s order. The prosecution also relied on communications between Ko\u010dner and Zsuzsov\u00e1 and metadata from the defendant’s phones to track their movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend were killed<\/a> in February 2018 in their house near Trnava. The double assassination provoked large-scale anti-government demonstrations and a political crisis in the country. The longest-serving Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico resigned<\/a> from the head of government. After the defeat in this year’s elections, his Direction-Social Democracy party ended up in opposition. In June, more than a quarter of its members, led by former Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, left it after an internal party split.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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